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Reuben

1757 BC – · Tribe of Reuben

Family

Father
Jacob (Israel)
Mother
Leah
Brothers and sisters
Dinah, Issachar, Judah (patriarch), Levi (patriarch), Simeon, Zebulun
Half-brothers and sisters
Asher, Benjamin (patriarch), Dan, Gad, Joseph (son of Jacob), Naphtali
Children
Carmi, Hanoch, Hezron, Pallu

In the story

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

  • Birth of Reuben · 1757 BC
  • Joseph sold to Egypt · 1727 BC
  • Joseph imprisoned · 1717 BC
  • 7 years of famine · 1707 BC
  • Joseph's brothers return to Egypt · 1705 BC

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father’s malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, and was the means of saving his life when his other brothers would have put him to death (37:21, 22). It was he also who pledged his life and the life of his sons when Jacob was unwilling to let Benjamin go down into Egypt. After Jacob and his family went down into Egypt (46:8) no further mention is made of Reuben beyond what is recorded in ch. 49:3, 4.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 70 verses

Genesis
29:32, 30:14, 35:22, 35:23, 37:21, 37:22, 37:29, 42:22, 42:37, 46:8, 46:9, 48:5, 49:3
Exodus
1:2, 6:14
Numbers
1:5, 1:20, 1:21, 2:10, 2:16, 7:30, 10:18, 13:4, 16:1, 26:5, 32:1, 32:2, 32:6, 32:25, 32:29, 32:31, 32:33, 32:37, 34:14
Deuteronomy
11:6, 27:13, 33:6
Joshua
4:12, 13:15, 13:23, 15:6, 18:7, 18:17, 20:8, 21:7, 21:36, 22:9, 22:10, 22:11, 22:13, 22:15, 22:21, 22:25, 22:30, 22:31, 22:32, 22:33, 22:34
Judges
5:15, 5:16
1 Chronicles
2:1, 5:1, 5:3, 5:18, 6:63, 6:78
Ezekiel
48:6, 48:7, 48:31
Revelation
7:5

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.