Numbers 10:29-36 - The Appeal To Hobab

²⁹ Then said Moses to Hobab, son of Raguel the Midianite, father-in-law of Moses: Setting forward, are we unto the place of which Yahweh hath said, The same, will I give unto you, - Oh come with us and we will do thee good, for, Yahweh, hath spoken good, concerning Israel.

³⁰ And he said unto him, I will not go, - but unto my own land, and unto my own kindred, will I go.

³¹ Then said he: I beseech thee, do not forsake us, - for, on this account, hast thou come to know of our encamping in the desert, so shalt thou be unto us as eyes; ³² and it shall be if thou wilt go with us, - yea it shall be that with the very good wherewith Yahweh shall do us good, will we do good unto thee.

³³ So then they went forward, from the mountain of Yahweh, a journey of three days, - and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, was going before them a journey of three days, to search out for them a resting-place, ³⁴ And the cloud of Yahweh, was over them by day, - when they set forward out of the camp.

³⁵ And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said: Arise, O Yahweh! and scattered be thy foes, Let them that hate thee flee before thee;

³⁶ But when it rested, he said, - Return, O Yahweh! unto the myriads of the thousands of Israel.