- Deuel:
- As the ד, daleth is very like the ר, resh, they might be easily mistaken for each other; and hence this person being called both Deuel and Reuel, may be easily accounted for. The Septuagint and Syriac have Reuel, in this chapter; and in "Then the tribeª of Gad:ª and the captainª of the sonsª of Gadª [shall be] Eliasaphª the sonª of Reuel.ª" {Num 2:14}, the Samaritan, Vulgate, and Arabic have Deuel, instead of Reuel, with which reading a vast number of manuscripts concur, and which is also supported by "On the sixthª dayª Eliasaphª the sonª of Deuel,ª princeª of the childrenª of Gad,ª [offered]:" {Num 7:42} + "And over¹ the hostª of the tribeª of the childrenª of Gadª [was] Eliasaphª the sonª of Deuel.ª" {Num 10:20}. We may therefore safely conclude, the Deuel, and not Reuel, was the original reading.
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