32 And ^aLeah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name ^bReuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

  6 ¶ Let ^aReuben live, and not die; and let not his men be ^bfew.

  1 Now the sons of ^aReuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s ^bbed, his birthright was given unto the ^csons of ^dJoseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

  29 But if ye will not hearken unto him I take away my ^afirst blessing, yea, even my blessing, and it shall rest upon him.

  17 For the firstborn holds the right of the presidency over this priesthood, and the ^akeys or authority of the same.

  3 It was ^aconferred upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the present time, even the right of the ^bfirstborn, or the first man, who is ^cAdam, or first father, through the fathers unto me.