The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Numbers 10
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall
make them of beaten work. You shall use
them for the calling of the congregation
and for the journeying of the camps.
3 Whentheyblow them, allthe congregation shall gather themselves to you at the
door of the Tent of Meeting.
4 If they blow just one, then the princes,
the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall
gather themselves to you.
5 When you blow an alarm, the camps
that lie on the east side shall go forward.
6 When you blow an alarm the second
time, the camps that lie on the south side
shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm
for their journeys.
7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you
shall blow, but you shall
not sound an alarm.
8 “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall
blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for
a statute forever throughout your generations.
9 When you go to war in your land
against the adversary who oppresses you,
then you shall sound an alarm with the
trumpets. Then you will be remembered
before Yahweh your God, and you will be
saved from your enemies.
10 “Also 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.”
11 In the second year, in the second
month, on the twentieth day of the month,
the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle of the covenant.
12 The children of Israel went forward
on their journeys out of the wilderness of
Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
13 They first went forward according to
the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
14 First, the standard of the camp of the
children of Judah went forward according
to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.
15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over
the army of the tribe of the children of
Issachar.
16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the
army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.
17 The tabernacle was taken down; and
the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari,
who bore the tabernacle, went forward.
18 The standard of the camp of Reuben
went forward according to their armies.
Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his
army.
19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was
over the army of the tribe of the children
of Simeon.
20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the
army of the tribe of the children of Gad.
21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing
the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to
their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.
23 Gamalielthe sonof Pedahzur was over
the army of the tribe of the children of
Manasseh.
24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over
the army of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin.
25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard
of all the camps, set forward according
to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.
26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the
army of the tribe of the children of Asher.
27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the
army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.
28 Thus were the travels of the children
of Israel according to their armies; and
they went forward.
29 Moses 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 to you.’ Come with
us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh
has spoken good concerning Israel.”
30 He said to him, “I will not go; but I
will depart to my own land, and to my
relatives.”
31 Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please;
because you know how we are to encamp
in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
32 It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it
shall be—that whatever good Yahweh does
to us, we will do the same to you.”
33 They set forward from the Mount
of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark
of Yahweh’s covenant went before them
three days’ journey, to seek out a resting
place for them.
34 The cloud of Yahweh was over themby
day, when they setforward from the camp.
35 When the ark went forward, Moses
said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you
flee before you!”
36 When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands ofthe thousands
of Israel.”