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Numbers 10:31
Numbers 10:31 is verse 31 of Numbers chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
King James Version
And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
World English Bible
Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
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Numbers 10:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible
29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
30 “I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
31 “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
32 If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
33 So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 29:15I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
Psalms 32:8I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
1 Corinthians 12:14For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.
1 Corinthians 12:15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
1 Corinthians 12:18But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.
1 Corinthians 12:19If they were all one part, where would the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
1 Corinthians 12:21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
Galatians 6:2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.