Reuben

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Scripture references

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived and gave birth to a son whom she named Reuben, meaning 'Yahweh has seen my misery'; and she said, 'Now my husband will love me.'

• Genesis 30:14

  One day, at the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah.

• Genesis 35:22

  While Israel was living in that district, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel found out. The sons of Jacob were now twelve.

• Genesis 37:21

  But Reuben heard, and he saved him from their clutches. 'We must not take his life,' he said.

• Genesis 37:22

  'Shed no blood,' said Reuben to them, 'throw him down that well out in the desert, but do not kill him yourselves' -- intending to save him from them and to restore him to his father.

• Genesis 37:29

  When Reuben went back to the well, there was no sign of Joseph. Tearing his clothes,

• Genesis 37:30

  he went back to his brothers. 'The boy has gone,' he said. 'What am I going to do?'

• Genesis 46:8

  These were the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his descendants, who arrived in Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's first-born,

• Genesis 46:9

  and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

• Genesis 48:5

  Now your two sons, born to you in Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be as much mine as Reuben and Simeon.

• Genesis 49:3

  Reuben, you are my first-born, my vigour, and the first-fruit of my manhood, foremost in pride, foremost in strength,

• Genesis 49:4

  uncontrolled as water: you will not be foremost, for you climbed into your father's bed, and so defiled my couch, to my sorrow.