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REUBEN , a tribe of Israel named after the eldest " son " of Jacob and of Leah. Both the meaning of the name (see Gen. xxix. 32) and the history of the tribe are extremely obscure. In one version of the story of Joseph, Reuben appears in a some-what favourable light (Gen. xxxvii. 22, 29, xlii. 37), but in Gen. xxxv
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For mythological elements in the tribe's history, see especially E. Stucken, Mittheil. d. vorderasiat. Gesell. (1902), pt. iv. pp. 46 sqq.; and for a full discussion of the biblical data, see H. W. Hogg, Ency. Bib. s.v., also E. Meyer
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