Reuben (son of Jacob)

Reuben
Reuben
רְאוּבֵן
Pronunciation	Rəʾuven
Born	1569 BC (15 Kislev, AM 2192 or AM 2193); Paddan Aram
Died	1445 BC or 1444 BC (AM 2317 or AM 2318) (aged 125)
Resting place	Tomb of Reuben, Israel; 31°55′46″N 34°44′02″E / 31.92944°N 34.73389°E
Spouse	Eliuram
Children	Hanok (son); Pallu (son); Hezron (son); Karmi (son);
Parents	Jacob (father); Leah (mother);
Relatives	Simeon (brother); Levi (brother); Judah (brother); Dan (half brother); Naphtali (half brother); Gad (half brother); Asher (half brother); Issachar (brother); Zebulun (brother); Dinah (sister); Joseph (half brother); Benjamin (half brother); Rachel (aunt/stepmother)

Reuben or Reuven (Hebrew: רְאוּבֵן, Standard Rəʾūven, Tiberian Rŭʾūḇēn)^[4] was the first of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's oldest son), according to the Book of Genesis. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Reuben.

^ Genesis 35:26
^ Meron Benvenisti. Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948. Translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23422-7. Retrieved Oct 19, 2018.
^ Genesis 46:9
^ Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 1783746769.