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    REUEL

    (Reuʹel) [Companion (Friend) of God].

    1. Second-named son of Esau, by Ishmael’s daughter Basemath. Reuel’s own four sons became Edomite sheiks.​—Ge 36:2-4, 10, 13, 17; 1Ch 1:35, 37.

    2. Moses’ father-in-law, a priest of Midian. (Ex 2:16-21; Nu 10:29) Elsewhere called Jethro.​—See JETHRO.

    3. A Gadite whose son Eliasaph was tribal chieftain during the wilderness march. (Nu 2:14) The name is spelled Deuel in its other occurrences.​—See DEUEL.

    4. Ancestor of a Benjamite who lived in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.​—1Ch 9:3, 7, 8.