Chapter 10

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²Make you two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. ³When they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting. ⁴If they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. ⁵When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. ⁶When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. ⁷But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. ⁸The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. ⁹When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. ¹⁰Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God. ¹¹It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony. ¹²The children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran. ¹³They first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. ¹⁴In the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ¹⁵Over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. ¹⁶Over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. ¹⁷The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward. ¹⁸The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Elizur the son of Shedeur. ¹⁹Over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. ²⁰Over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. ²¹The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tent against their coming. ²²The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Elishama the son of Ammihud. ²³Over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. ²⁴Over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. ²⁵The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their armies: and over his army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶Over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran. ²⁷Over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. ²⁸Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they set forward. ²⁹Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel. ³⁰He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives. ³¹He said, Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes. ³²It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you. ³³They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them. ³⁴The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp. ³⁵It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you. ³⁶When it rested, he said, Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.