Bible Verses About The Tribe Of Reuben

And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.

Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.

Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.

Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and families and houses and names of every head, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war,

Were forty-six thousand five hundred.

In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur:

The fourth day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur,

Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:

An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a holocaust:

And a buck goat for sin:

And for victims of peace offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisur the son of Sedeur.

And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks, whose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur.

Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:

And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,

Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the Phalluites:

And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites.

These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

The son of Phallu was Eliab.

His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord:

And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,

And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle,

They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the multitude, and said:

Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and Nebo, and Beon,

The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle: