Reuel

This term has multiple meanings in the Bible:

  1. The son of Esau by his wife Basemath, and the father of four sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah (Genesis 36:4, 10–17).

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  2. A priest of Midian who gave his daughter to Moses for a wife. He is perhaps the same person as #1 above, and identical to Jethro (Exodus 2:18; compare Exodus 3:1). He is also called Raguel in Numbers 10:29 in the King James Version. See Jethro.

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  3. An alternate spelling of Deuel, Eliasaph’s father, in Numbers 2:14. See Deuel.

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  4. An ancestor of Meshullam in Benjamin’s tribe (1 Chronicles 9:8).

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From Tyndale Bible Dictionary, adapted by Mission Mutual. CC BY-SA 4.0.

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