38 And a vast mixed company*+ also went up with them, as well as flocks and herds, a very numerous stock of animals.

29 Then Moses said to Hoʹbab the son of Reuʹel+ the Midʹi·an·ite, the father-in-law of Moses:* “We are pulling away for the place about which Jehovah said, ‘I shall give it to YOU.’+ Do come with us, and we shall certainly do good to you,+ because Jehovah has spoken good concerning Israel.”+

16 And Ruth proceeded to say: “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from accompanying you;* for where you go I shall go, and where you spend the night I shall spend the night.+ Your people will be my people,+ and your God my God.+

47 In fact, Jehovah* has laid commandment upon us in these words, ‘I have appointed you as a light of nations,+ for you to be a salvation to the extremity* of the earth.’”+