And these other tribes must stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.p>

Merari’s descendants by their clans were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

<n id="1" /> from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer, Jahaz,

<p class="poetry">Why do you remain among the sheepfolds,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">listening to the shepherds playing their pipes<n id="2" /> for their flocks?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">As for the clans of Reuben &#8211; there was intense searching of heart.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Israel:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;p> <p class="bodytext">Issachar and Zebulun;p>

Next to the border of Ephraim from the east side to the west, Reuben will have one portion.

Next to the border of Reuben from the east side to the west, Judah<n id="1" /> will have one portion.p>

So Leah became pregnant<n id="1" /> and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,<n id="2" /> for she said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has looked with pity on my oppressed condition.<n id="3" /> Surely my husband will love me now.&#8221;p>

Reuben said to them, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I say to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t sin against the boy,&#8217; but you wouldn&#8217;t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!&#8221;<n id="1" />

All those numbered of the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, are 151,450. They will travel second.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites,<n id="2" /> took men<n id="3" />

the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,

<p class="bodytext">So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, &#8220;Your servants will do as my lord commands.

Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, &#8220;Your servants will do what the <sc>Lordsc> has spoken.<n id="1" />

The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle ahead of the Israelites, just as Moses had instructed them.

went up to Beth Hoglah, crossed north of Beth Arabah, and went up to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

It went northward, extending to En Shemesh and Geliloth opposite the Pass<n id="1" /> of Adummim, and descended to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:

<p class="bodytext">The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders<n id="1" /> of the Israelite clans:

The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar, &#8220;Surely it is a Reminder to us<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> is God.&#8221;p>