If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

He said, “I will not enter my own home, or get into my bed.

He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn – (Now he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph, Israel’s son. So Reuben is not listed as firstborn in the genealogical records.