Reuel or Raguel (
Hebrew: רְעוּאֵל,
romanized: Rəʿūʾēl;
Edomite: 𐤓𐤏𐤀𐤋rʿʾl[1]), meaning "God shall pasture" or more specifically "
El shall pasture" (as a shepherd does with his flock)[2][3] is a Hebrew name associated with several biblical and religious figures.
^Meyers, Carol (1 March 2018). Coogan, Michael D.; Brettler, Marc Z.; Newsom, Carol A.; Perkins, Pheme (eds.).
The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version (Fifth ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 81–83.
ISBN978-0-19-027605-8. Like the rest of the Pentateuch, Exodus contains contradictions and redundancies. For example, Moses' father-in-law is sometimes called Reuel and sometimes Jethro; and the mountain of revelation is Sinai in some passages and Horeb in others.
^Harris, Stephen (20 January 2010).
Understanding The Bible (8 ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. p. 69.
ISBN978-0-07-340744-9. J names Moses' father-in-law as Reuel or Hobab, whereas E knows him as Jethro, priest of Midian.
^Susie Helme, The Lost Wisdom of the Magi, (The Conrad Press, 2020), p. 260.
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