Reuben

Role: son · First appears: The Birth Of Jacob's Children

Leah gave birth to Reuben, her first son with Jacob, at the end of seven months of marriage. After Leah’s death, Reuben moved her couch into Jacob’s tent instead of Bilhah’s. Asher told Reuben’s brothers about the act, and they broke relations with Reuben; Reuben later repented and confessed, after which his brothers reconciled with Asher.

At Mount Seir, Reuben’s son Enoch was with Jacob’s sons when they defeated Esau’s army and pursued the fugitives. Esau’s sons and the other fugitives eventually submitted to peace and agreed to pay tribute.

Relationship record

Life events

• Leah gave birth to Reuben, her first son with Jacob.(The Birth Of Jacob's Children)
  • With: Leah Jacob
  • “God granted her the distinction of bearing a son at the end of seven months after her marriage. He was one of a pair of twins”
• Reuben moved Leah's couch into Jacob's tent instead of Bilhah's couch.(Joy And Sorrow In The House Of Jacob · 📍 Jacob's tent)
  • With: Leah Jacob
  • “He went and took the couch of his mother Leah and placed it in Jacob's tent instead of Bilhah's couch.”
• Asher told Reuben's brothers about his act, and they broke relations with Reuben.(Joy And Sorrow In The House Of Jacob)
  • With: Asher
  • “Reuben's brothers learned of his disrespectful act from Asher. He had found it out in one way or another, and had told it to his brethren, who ruptured their relations with him”
• Reuben confessed his transgression, and his brothers reconciled with Asher.(Joy And Sorrow In The House Of Jacob)
  • With: Asher
  • “they did not become reconciled with Asher until Reuben himself confessed his transgression.”
• Reuben repented of his misdeed after recognizing he had acted wrongly toward his father.(Joy And Sorrow In The House Of Jacob)
  • “For it was not long before Reuben recognized that he had acted reprehensibly toward his father, and he fasted and put on sackcloth, and repented of his misdeed.”
• Jacob's sons defeated Esau's army, pursued the fugitives, and besieged them on Mount Seir.(Esau's Campaign Against Jacob · 📍 Mount Seir)
  • With: Jacob Judah Naphtali Gad Levi Dan Issachar Zebulon Simon Benjamin Enoch (son of Reuben) Reuel Jeush Lotan Korah
  • “Four hundred were slain in battle, and six hundred fled, among the latter Esau's four sons, Reuel, Jeush, Lotan, and Korah.”
• Esau's sons and the fugitives submitted to peace and agreed to pay tribute.(Esau's Campaign Against Jacob · 📍 Mount Seir)
  • With: Jacob Judah Naphtali Gad Levi Dan Issachar Zebulon Simon Benjamin Enoch (son of Reuben) Reuel Jeush Lotan Korah
  • “Now the sons of Esau and all the other fugitives came and fell down before them, bowed down, and entreated them without cease, until they concluded peace with them. But the sons of Jacob exacted tribute from them.”

The Birth Of Jacob's Children

• parent: Jacob “her first-born son Reuben”
• parent: Leah “She called her first-born son Reuben”

Jacob Wrestles With The Angel

• parent: Jacob “Jacob proceeded to pass his sons in review: Reuben, Joseph, Dan, and Gad being the first-born, each of his mother, were exempt, and there remained but eight sons, and when he had named them, down to Benjamin, he had to go back and begin over again with Simon, the ninth, and finish with Levi as the tenth.”

Joy And Sorrow In The House Of Jacob

• parent: Jacob “For it was not long before Reuben recognized that he had acted reprehensibly toward his father”
• parent: Leah “He went and took the couch of his mother Leah and placed it in Jacob's tent instead of Bilhah's couch.”
• siblings with Asher “Reuben's brothers learned of his disrespectful act from Asher.”

Esau's Campaign Against Jacob

• parent: Jacob “Reuben, Issachar, and Zebulon with fifty servants, to the north”
• child: Enoch (son of Reuben) “Enoch, the last the son of Reuben”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.