Chapter 10

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed. ³And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant. ⁴If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee. ⁵But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward. ⁶And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march. ⁷But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound. ⁸And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations. ⁹If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of your enemies. ¹⁰If at any time you shall have a banquet, end on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God. ¹¹The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant. ¹²And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. ¹³And the first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses. ¹⁴The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the son of Aminadab. ¹⁵In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Nathanael the son of Suar. ¹⁶In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon. ¹⁷And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it. ¹⁸And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks, whose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur. ¹⁹And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai. ²⁰And in the tribe of Cad, the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel. ²¹Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they same to the place of setting it up. ²²The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. ²³And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur. ²⁴And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon. ²⁵The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their troops, in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai. ²⁶And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran. ²⁷And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the prince was Ahira the son of Enan. ²⁸This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of Israel by their troops, when they set forward. ²⁹And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good : for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel. ³⁰But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born. ³¹And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide. ³²And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us. ³³So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three days providing a place for the camp. ³⁴The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they marched. ³⁵And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face. ³⁶And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the multitude of the host of Israel.