Numbers 10:28-30

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁸ This was the order of march of the Israelites, company by company, when they set out.

²⁹ Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, ‘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 to Israel.’ ³⁰ But he said to him, ‘I will not go, but I will go back to my own land and to my kindred.’