Reuben Unstable as Water

“Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel, your father" (Gen. 49:2). The twelve sons dutifully assembled. They arranged themselves in a semicircle around their aged father as he sat on the edge of his deathbed. No doubt they had arranged themselves in the order of their births, with the elder Reuben at one end and Benjamin, the youngest, at the other. They