27. Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
28. This was the order of march of the children of Israel, company by company, when they set out.
29. Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out to the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do good to you because the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel.”
30. Hobab said to him, “I will not go. But I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.”
31. So Moses said, “Please do not leave us, because you know where to camp in the wilderness, and you may be our eyes.
32. Moreover, if you go with us, then it will be that whatever good the Lord will do for us, we will likewise do for you.”
33. They set out three days from the mountain of the Lord, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.
34. And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from of the camp.
35. And it was, when the ark set out, that Moses said, “Rise up, O Lord,and let Your enemies be scattered,and let them that hate You flee before You.”
36. And when it rested, he said, “Return, O Lord,to the multitude of thousands of Israel.”