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Letter "R" » Reuben
«And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: / About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.»
«And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying, / Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD? / Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD, / But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.»
«And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.»
«And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.»
«And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; / Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.»
«And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.»
«And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.»
«And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim, / And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.»
«And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.»
«And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.»