“Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 49 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.