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OET (OET-LV) Destructiveness as_the_water do_not excel if/because you_went_up the_bed(s) I_will_show_you(ms) then you_profaned_[it] couch_my he_went_up.
OET (OET-RV) But you’re destructive like strong waters.
⇔ You climbed into my bed (with my slave wife).
⇔ ≈You got onto my couch and defiled it.
פַּ֤חַז
unstable
Alternate translation: “However, you are uncontrollable” or “However, you are reckless”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
כַּמַּ֨יִם֙
as_the,water
Here Jacob compares Reuben’s reckless, uncontrolled sexual behavior to turbulent water that is out of control and destructive. Consider whether or not you have a similar simile in your language that would fit well here. Alternate translation: “like a flood of water,”
אַל תּוֹתַ֔ר
not excel
Alternate translation: “so you will no longer have your high position in our family,” or “so you will no longer be first among your brothers,”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism
כִּ֥י עָלִ֖יתָ מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אָבִ֑יךָ אָ֥ז חִלַּ֖לְתָּ
that/for/because/then/when went_up bed I_will_show=you(ms) then defiled
This clause, along with the rest of the verse, is a euphemistic way of referring to Reuben committing adultery by sleeping with his father’s concubine (secondary wife) Bilhah (Genesis 35:22). Alternate translation: “because you got into my bed with my wife and dishonored me!” or “because you dishonored me by getting into my bed and committing adultery with my concubine”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
יְצוּעִ֥י עָלָֽה
couch,my went_up
Here Jacob repeats part of what he said in the previous clause, in order to emphasize Reuben’s sin against him and to communicate how upset he is about it. He may have still been talking to Reuben (switching from second to third person), or he may have been exclaiming about Reuben to himself and the rest of his sons.
49:1-28 Jacob, by faith and as God’s spokesman, looked forward to Israel’s settlement in the land, and beyond that to the glorious future. Here at the end of the patriarchal age, he foretold what would happen to each tribe as he evaluated his sons one by one, just as Noah had done at the end of the primeval era (cp. 9:25-27). The character and acts of each ancestor affected the lives of his descendants (Exod 20:5-6; 34:6-7; Num 14:18; Jer 32:18).
OET (OET-LV) Destructiveness as_the_water do_not excel if/because you_went_up the_bed(s) I_will_show_you(ms) then you_profaned_[it] couch_my he_went_up.
OET (OET-RV) But you’re destructive like strong waters.
⇔ You climbed into my bed (with my slave wife).
⇔ ≈You got onto my couch and defiled it.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.