Holy Scripture
Numbers 10:29
A church father on this verse
“We can better persuade proud men to do what is useful if we say that their setting out will profit us rather than them, or if we say that improvement will profit us rather than them and ask that the cost be on our account, not theirs. For pride is easily turned to good if it can be adapted to the profit of others. Thu…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
29And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, We are going forward to the place concerning which the Lord said, This will I give to you: Come with us, and we will do thee good, for the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel.
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27And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, was Ahira the son of Enan.
28These are the armies of the children of Israel; and they set forward with their forces.
— Numbers 10:29 —
30And he said to him, I will not go, but I will go to my land and to my kindred.
31And he said, Leave us not, because thou hast been with us in the wilderness, and thou shalt be an elder among us.