Numbers 10:29–36

²⁹Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’s 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.” ³¹He said, “Do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us. ³²Moreover, if you go with us, whatever good the Lord does for us, the same we will do for you.”^*

³³So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey with the ark of the covenant of the Lord going before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them,^{* 34}the cloud of the Lord being over them by day when they set out from the camp.^*

³⁵Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say,

“Arise, O Lord, let your enemies be scattered

and your foes flee before you.”^*

³⁶And whenever it came to rest, he would say,

“Return, O Lord, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”^s