Numbers 10:28-30

International Standard Version

²⁸This was the travel order for the Israelis, whenever their companies traveled.

Moses invites His Father-in-Law to Accompany Israel

²⁹Then Moses told Reuel’s son Hobab, Moses’ relative by marriage^[a] from Midian, “We are traveling to the place about which the Lord said ‘I will give it to you.’ So come with us and we’ll be good to you, because the Lord has spoken good things about Israel.”

³⁰But he said, “I won’t go with you because I’m returning to my land and to my own family.”

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Footnotes

Numbers 10:29 The Heb. word can connote any family relationship established through marriage, including father-in-law or brother-in-law; cf. Judg 4:11; Exod 2:18 3:1, 18.

Numbers 10:28-30

New International Version

²⁸This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.

²⁹Now Moses said to Hobab^(A) son of Reuel^(B) the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,^(C) “We are setting out for the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’^(D) Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”