Numbers 10:30-36

30 But he replied, "I will not go; I would rather go back to my own country and my own kinsmen."

31 Moshe continued, "Please don't leave us, because you know that we have to camp in the desert, and you can serve as our eyes.

32 If you do go with us, then whatever good ADONAI does for us, we will do the same for you."

33 So they set out from ADONAI's mountain and traveled for three days. Ahead of them on this three-day journey went the ark of ADONAI's covenant, searching for a new place to stop.

34 The cloud of ADONAI was over them during the day as they set out from the camp.

35 When the ark moved forward, Moshe said, "Arise, ADONAI! May your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!"

36 When it stopped, he said, "Return, ADONAI of the many, many thousands of Isra'el!"

Numbers 10:30-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10

This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Nu 10:1-10; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Nu 10:11-28; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Nu 10:29-32; and the chapter is closed with the prayer of Moses at the setting forward of the ark, and the resting of it, Nu 10:33-36.