Numbers 10:17-34

¹⁷And in the mean time the tabernacle was taken down; and then set forward the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle.

¹⁸Then set forward the standard of the camp of Reuben, according to their armies: and over their host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

¹⁹And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

²⁰And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Elyassaph the son of Deuel.

²¹And then set forward the Kehathites, the bearers of the sanctuary: and the others set up the tabernacle against they came.

²²Then set forward the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim according to their armies; and over their host was Elishama the son of 'Ammihud.

²³And over the host of the tribe of the children of Menasseh was Gamliel the son of Pedahzur.

²⁴And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gidoni.

²⁵Then set forward the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, the rereward of all the camps, according to their hosts: and over their host was Achiezer the son of 'Ammishaddai.

²⁶And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of 'Ochran.

²⁷And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Achira the son of 'Enan.

²⁸In this order were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.

²⁹And Moses said unto Chobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord hath said, This will I give unto you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken to bring good upon Israel.

³⁰And he said unto him, I will not go; but to my own land, and to my birthplace will I go.

³¹And he said, Do not, I pray thee, leave us; since thou didst find out the places where we were to encamp in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us instead of eyes.

³²And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that the same goodness which the Lord may do unto us, will we do unto thee.

³³And they set forward from the mount of the Lord a three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days' journey, to search out for them a resting-place.

³⁴And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.