Numbers 10:31
World English Bible (WEB)
Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
In context
29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to 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 spoken good concerning Israel.”
30 He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
31 Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
32 It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good the LORD does to us, we will do the same to you.”
33 They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three days’ journey. The ark of the LORD’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
Numbers 10:31 in every translation
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And he saith, 'I pray thee, forsake us not, because thou hast known our encamping in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us for eyes;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said, Leave me not, I pray thee, because thou knowest where we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou wilt be to us for eyes.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.