4 With reckless license like waters,* do not you excel,+ because you have gone up to your father’s bed.+ At that time you profaned my lounge.+ He went up to it!

8 “‘The nakedness of your father’s wife you must not lay bare.+ It is your father’s nakedness.

5 And the sons of Reuʹben+ the firstborn of Israel—for he was the firstborn;+ but for his profaning the lounge of his father+ his right as firstborn was given to the sons of Joseph+ the son of Israel, so that he was not to be enrolled genealogically for the right of the firstborn.

5 Actually fornication*+ is reported among YOU, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, that a wife a certain [man] has of [his] father.*+