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Hobab

호밥

Named at Numbers 10:29 as the son of Reuel the Midianite. When Moses asks him to come with them he answers that he will go to his own land and relatives (10:30), and Moses asks him again (10:31–32). The Korean Revised Version calls Reuel Moses’ father-in-law in 10:29; the English can be read either way.

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JDG 4:11, engwebp
¹¹Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
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NUM 10:29–32, engwebp
²⁹Moses 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.”
³⁰He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
³¹Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
³²It 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.”
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Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.

Unresolved interpretation: Reuel, Jethro and Hobab: names and identity

Exodus 2 calls the daughters’ father Reuel.
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- EXO 2:16–22, engwebp
  ¹⁶Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
  ¹⁷The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
  ¹⁸When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
  ¹⁹They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
  ²⁰He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
  ²¹Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
  ²²She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
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Exodus 3 and 18 call Moses’ father-in-law Jethro; names are not automatically merged.
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- EXO 3:1–6, engwebp
  ¹Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
  ²The LORD’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
  ³Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
  ⁴When the LORD saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”
  ⁵He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”
  ⁶Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.
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- EXO 18:1–6, engwebp
  ¹Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
  ²Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
  ³and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
  ⁴The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
  ⁵Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
  ⁶He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
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Numbers 10:29 has Moses speak to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite. The Korean Revised Version makes Reuel the father-in-law; the English “Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law” leaves open whether the father-in-law is Reuel or Hobab.
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- NUM 10:29–32, engwebp
  ²⁹Moses 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.”
  ³⁰He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
  ³¹Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
  ³²It 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.”
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Judges 4:11 names Hobab again. The Korean Revised Version reads 모세의 장인 호밥, calling Hobab Moses’ father-in-law; WEB reads “Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law”.
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- JDG 4:11, engwebp
  ¹¹Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
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Separate records for the names do not assert different people. Hobab is recorded as Reuel’s son, as both editions of Numbers 10:29 have it. Whether the father-in-law of Numbers 10:29 is Reuel or Hobab is not decided, nor is Hobab’s tie to Moses at Judges 4:11, where the Korean Revised Version calls him Moses’ father-in-law and WEB Moses’ brother-in-law.

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Reuel (the Midianite) — Father of — Hobab

Evidence: Numbers 10:29–32
Took part in (1) — Moses asks Hobab to come with them

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Numbers 10:29 Open that verse

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.”

Judges 4:11 Open that verse

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

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Entry: Hobab (person-hobab)
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Current wording: Named at Numbers 10:29 as the son of Reuel the Midianite. When Moses asks him to come with them he answers that he will go to his own land and relatives (10:30), and Moses asks him again (10:31–32). The Korean Revised Version calls Reuel Moses’ father-in-law in 10:29; the English can be read either way.
Cited evidence: JDG 4:11, engwebp / NUM 10:29–32, engwebp
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