Numbers 10:29–36

²⁹Moses said to Hobab, descendant of Reuel^j the Midianite and Moses’s relative by marriage, Reuel the Midianite, “We’re setting out for the place the Lord promised, ‘I will give it to you.’^k Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”^l

³⁰But he replied to him, “I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”

³¹“Please don’t leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes. ³²If you come with us, whatever good the Lord does for us we will do for you.”^m

³³They set out from the mountain of the Lord on a three-day journey with the ark of the Lord’s covenant traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.^{n 34}Meanwhile, the cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

³⁵Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say:

Arise, Lord!

Let your enemies be scattered,

and those who hate you flee from your presence.^o

³⁶When it came to rest, he would say:

Return, Lord,

to the countless thousands of Israel.^p