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.