Numbers 10:29-31

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁹ Moses said to Hobab, descendant of Reuel^(A) the Midianite and Moses’s relative by marriage, ‘We’re setting out for the place the Lord promised, “I will give it to you.”^(B) Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.’^(C)

³⁰ But he replied to him, ‘I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.’

³¹ ‘Please don’t leave us,’ Moses said, ‘since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.