Reuben sleeping with his father's concubine here is why he loses firstborn status later - 1 Chronicles spells it out directly.
Legal & Ethicalבשכן ישראל בארץ ההוא WHEN ISRAEL DWELT IN THAT LAND — before he came to Isaac at Hebron, all these troubles happened to him.<br><br>וישכב AND HE LAY — Because he had disturbed his couch Scripture accounts it to him as though he had actually sinned in...
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