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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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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Numbers 10:31

Leave us not, I pray thee . . . and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes—The earnest importunity of Moses to secure the attendance of this man, when he enjoyed the benefit of the directing cloud, has surprised many. But it should be recollected that the guidance of the cloud, though it showed the general route to be taken through the trackless desert, would not be so special and minute as to point out the places where pasture, shade, and water were to be obtained and which were often hid in obscure spots by the shifting sands. Besides, several detachments were sent off from the main body; the services of Hobab, not as a single Arab, but as a prince of a powerful clan, would have been exceedingly useful.




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