A Strong Purpose in Life
Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch.


What a noble thing any life becomes, that has driven through it the strength of a uniting single purpose, like a strong shaft of iron bolting together the two tottering walls of some old building.

(A. Maclaren, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

WEB: Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.




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