Who was Reuben?

Behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father’s malediction (48:4).

Reuben first appears in Genesis 29:32. In this repository’s biblical text, this figure is associated with 70 verse mentions across 9 books, most notably Joshua, Numbers, Genesis, 1 Chronicles.