Reuben

and Leah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Reuben, for she said, `Because Jehovah hath looked on mine affliction; because now doth my husband love me.'

And Reuben goeth in the days of wheat-harvest, and findeth love-apples in the field, and bringeth them in unto Leah, his mother, and Rachel saith unto Leah, `Give to me, I pray thee, of the love-apples of thy son.'

and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.

And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

And Reuben heareth, and delivereth him out of their hand, and saith, `Let us not smite the life;'

and Reuben saith unto them, `Shed no blood; cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and put not forth a hand upon him,' --in order to deliver him out of their hand, to bring him back unto his father.

And Reuben returneth unto the pit, and lo, Joseph is not in the pit, and he rendeth his garments,

And Reuben answereth them, saying, `Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.'

And Reuben speaketh unto his father, saying, `My two sons thou dost put to death, if I bring him not in unto thee; give him into my hand, and I--I bring him back unto thee;'

And these are the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob's first-born, Reuben.

And sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

`And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they are ; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine;

Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

These are heads of the house of their fathers: Sons of Reuben first-born of Israel are Hanoch, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these are families of Reuben.

`And these are the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben--Elizur son of Shedeur.

And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born--their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host--

their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

The standard of the camp of Reuben is southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur;

All those numbered of the camp of Reuben are a hundred thousand, and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second.

On the fourth day, Elizur, son of Shedeur, prince of the sons of Reuben; --

And the standard of the camp of Reuben hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elizur son of Shedeur.

and these their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.

And Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, taketh both Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben,

Reuben, first-born of Israel--sons of Reuben: of Hanoch is the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite;