Reu
Patriarchs (Abraham–Joseph)
Early Patriarch
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Reu was the son of Peleg and an ancestor of Abraham, living to the age of 239 years.
Reu was the son of Peleg and the great-great-great-grandson of Shem, son of Noah, listed in the patriarchal genealogies of Genesis 11:18–21 and 1 Chronicles 1:25. He fathered Serug at the age of thirty-two and lived to two hundred and thirty-nine years according to the Masoretic text, representing one of the post-flood patriarchal generations through whom the line of Abraham descended.