The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 10: 26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Numbers 10: 27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers 10: 28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts. --And they set forward.
Numbers 10: 29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: 'We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said: I will give it you; come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.'
Numbers 10: 30 And he said unto him: 'I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.'
Numbers 10: 31 And he said: 'Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.
Numbers 10: 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.'
Numbers 10: 33 And they set forward from the mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.
Numbers 10: 34 And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
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