Numbers 10:33-36 (JE). The Movements of the Ark. Here the Ark is not regarded as carried in the middle of the column (as in Numbers 10:21), but as preceding it (cf. Psalms 68:7). The address to it assumes that it was the seat or symbol of Yahweh, and the particular expressions used are more appropriate to a time after the settlement in Canaan, when the Ark accompanied the Israelite armies to war (1 Samuel 4:3; 2 Samuel 11:11), than to the period spent in the wilderness.
Numbers 10:33. After before them, omit three days-' journey (as an accidental repetition).