According to the
apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Reu is said to have been born to Peleg and Lomna of
Shinar at the time when the
Tower of Babel was begun.'Behold the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar.' - (10:18)His wife was Ora, daughter of 'Ûr, (the son of Kesed) (
Jubilees 11:1). According to the
Masoretic Text (), Reu was born when his father Peleg was 30; he was 32 when Serug was born, and lived to the age of 239 (when Abraham was either 18 or 78). The
Septuagint and
Samaritan Pentateuch state that his age on fathering Serug was 132, and the
Septuagint thus gives age at death as 339. == References ==