Numbers 10 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year [since leaving Egypt], the cloud [of the Lord’s presence] was lifted from over the tabernacle of the Testimony,

Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, moved out.

Then the Kohathites moved out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before they arrived.

Then the [fn]standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, according to their armies, which formed the rear guard for all the camps, moved out, with Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai [commander] over its army,

Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are going to the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will be good to you, for the LORD has promised good [things] concerning Israel.”

So they set out from the mountain of the LORD (Sinai) three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went in front of them during the three days’ journey to seek out a resting place for them.

Whenever the ark set out, Moses said,

“Rise up, O LORD!

Let Your enemies be scattered;

And let those who hate You flee before You.”

And when the ark rested, Moses said,

“Return, O LORD,

To the myriad (many) thousands of Israel.”