[1302] The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, he is the firstborn; but when he defiled his father's bed, his primacy was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he should not be written by him as the firstborn; for Judah was the strongest of his brethren, and the leader was from him, but the primacy was transferred to Joseph.

[1303] And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baalverif; Abimelech hired idle and self-willed people for them, who followed him.

[1304] Behold, I am against the prophets of false dreams, saith the Lord, who tell them, and deceive my people by their deceit, and deceive them, whereas I have not sent them, nor commanded them, and they are of no use to this people, saith the Lord.

[1305] There are enemies of the light among them, they do not know its ways, and do not walk in its paths. At dawn, the murderer rises, kills the poor and needy, and at night he becomes a thief. And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, "No eye shall see me," and covers his face. In the dark, they dig under the houses that they have noticed for themselves during the day; They do not know the light. For to them the morning is a shadow of death, for they are familiar with the horrors of the shadow of death. Such a man is light on the surface of the water, cursed is a part of him on the earth, and he does not look at the path of the vineyards.

[1306] During Israel's stay in that country, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, the concubine of his father [Jacob]. And Israel heard [and received it with grief]. And Jacob had twelve sons.

[1307] And they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

[1308] Let Reuben live, and let him not die, and let him not be few!

[1309] And the princes of Issachar and Deborah, and Issachar, like Barak, rushed into the valley on foot. There is great dissension among the tribes of Reuben. 16 Why do you sit among the sheepfolds, listening to the bleating of the flocks? There is great dissension among the tribes of Reuben.

[1310] then let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake me, let him trample my life to the ground, and cast my glory into the dust.

[1311] And David took from him a thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen, and David cut off the sinews of all the charioteers' horses, keeping them for a hundred chariots.

[1312] But the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow, about this time, I will deliver them all up to be slain by [the children of] Israel; and cut their horses' sinews, and burn their chariots with fire... And Jesus dealt with them as the Lord had said to him: He cut off the sinews of their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

[1313] was numbered in the tribe of Simeon fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

[1314] These are the generations of Simeon: twenty-two thousand and two hundred.

[1315] The second lot was given to Simeon, the tribe of the sons of Simeon, according to their families; and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah... Of the inheritance of the sons of Judah was set aside for the inheritance of the sons of Simeon. Since the inheritance of the sons of Judah was too great for them, the sons of Simeon received an inheritance among their inheritance.