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29 Now Moses said to aHobab the son of bReuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, c‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and dwe will treat you well; for ethe Lord has promised good things to Israel.”  
30 And he said to him, “I will not go, but I will depart to my own land and to my relatives.”
31 So Moses said, “Please do not leave, inasmuch as you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and you can1 be our aeyes.  
32 And it shall be, if you go with us—indeed it shall be—that awhatever good the Lord will do to us, the same we will do to you.”  
33 So they departed from athe mountain of the Lord on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord bwent before them for the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.  
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Numbers 10:31

Thou mayest be to us instead of eyes - To direct and guide us: for though the cloud determined them to a general place, yet many particulars might be unknown to Moses, wherein Hobab, having long lived in those parts, might be able to advise him, as concerning the conveniences of water for their cattle, concerning the safety or danger of the several parts, by reason of serpents or wild - beasts, or enemies, in the parts adjoining to them, that so they might guard themselves better against them. Or, this is to be understood of his directing them not so much in their way. as about great and difficult matters, wherein the counsel he had from God did not exclude the advice of men, as we see in Hobab's father Jethro, Exodus 18:19-27. And it is probable, this was the wise son of a wise father.




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