These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his children, who came to Egypt. Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,
Leah conceived and bore a son, and she named him Reuben; for she said, “It means, ‘The Lord saw my misery; surely now my husband will love me.’”
His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters—all his descendants—he took with him to Egypt.
and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
These are the names of those who are to assist you: from Reuben: Elizur, son of Shedeur;
May Reuben live and not die out, but let his numbers be few.