Numbers 10

¹Numbers 10:1. Then the LORD said to Moses,²Numbers 10:2. “Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.³Numbers 10:3. When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.⁴Numbers 10:4. But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.⁵Numbers 10:5. When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.⁶Numbers 10:6. When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.⁷Numbers 10:7. To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.⁸Numbers 10:8. The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.⁹Numbers 10:9. When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.¹⁰Numbers 10:10. And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

¹¹Numbers 10:11. On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,¹²Numbers 10:12. and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.¹³Numbers 10:13. They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.¹⁴Numbers 10:14. First, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.¹⁵Numbers 10:15. Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe of Issachar,¹⁶Numbers 10:16. and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of Zebulun.¹⁷Numbers 10:17. Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.¹⁸Numbers 10:18. Then the divisions of the camp of Reuben set out under their standard, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command.¹⁹Numbers 10:19. Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon,²⁰Numbers 10:20. and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.²¹Numbers 10:21. Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.²²Numbers 10:22. Next, the divisions of the camp of Ephraim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command.²³Numbers 10:23. Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,²⁴Numbers 10:24. and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.²⁵Numbers 10:25. Finally, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for all units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.²⁶Numbers 10:26. Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher,²⁷Numbers 10:27. and Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali.²⁸Numbers 10:28. This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.²⁹Numbers 10:29. Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”³⁰Numbers 10:30. “I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”³¹Numbers 10:31. “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.³²Numbers 10:32. If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”³³Numbers 10:33. So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.³⁴Numbers 10:34. And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.³⁵Numbers 10:35. Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”³⁶Numbers 10:36. And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”