DEUEL dōō’ əl (דְּעוּאֵֽל, meaning God knows). The fame of Deuel is in his son Eliasaph (אֶלְיָסָ֖ף “God has added”). When Moses and Aaron would take a census of the people at Sinai, Eliasaph, son of Deuel, was with them to record the male Gadites of twenty years old and up, 45,650 (Num 1:14; 2:14). When the Tabernacle was complete Eliasaph brought the large donation of a tribal leader on the seventh of twelve days (7:42, 47). He, then, was leader of Gad’s host (1:24, 25).

Once in these Heb. references the name is spelled Reuel (רְעוּאֵֽל God is friend), also the name of four others. In the LXX it is always with an R. The Heb. ד and ר are easily mistaken for each other.