Numbers 10

The Two Silver Trumpets

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 “Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out. ‡ Isa 1:13Jol 1:14Psa 81:32Ch 5:122Ki 12:13Eph 4:5Exo 25:18Exo 25:31 +33 When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ‡ Jer 4:5Jol 2:15-16 4 But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you. ‡ Exo 18:21Num 7:2Deu 1:15Num 1:4-16

5 When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out. ‡ Num 10:14Num 2:3-9Isa 58:1Jol 2:1Num 10:6-7 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. ‡ Num 10:18Num 2:10-16 7 To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones. ‡ Jol 2:1Num 10:3-4 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. ‡ 1Ch 15:24Jos 6:4-16Num 31:61Ch 16:62Ch 13:12-15

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. ‡ 1Sa 10:18Jdg 2:18Gen 8:1Psa 106:42Ch 13:14Jdg 10:12Jdg 10:8Jos 6:5 +2210 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 fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.” ‡ Psa 81:31Co 11:24-261Th 4:162Ch 29:262Ch 29:28Ezr 3:10Neh 12:35Num 10:9 +21

From Sinai to Paran

11 On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony, ‡ Exo 40:17Exo 40:2Num 1:1Num 9:1Num 9:11Num 9:17-23Num 9:5 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. ‡ Gen 21:21Num 12:16Deu 1:1Exo 19:1-2Exo 40:36-37Num 1:1Num 13:26Num 13:3 +813 They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses. ‡ Deu 1:6Num 9:23

14 First, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command. ‡ Num 2:3-9Num 1:7Gen 49:8Num 26:19-27Num 7:12 15 Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe of Issachar, ‡ Num 1:8Num 7:18 16 and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of Zebulun. ‡ Num 1:9Num 7:24 17 Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it. ‡ Num 1:51Num 7:6-82Pe 1:14Heb 12:28Heb 9:11Num 3:25-26Num 3:36-37Num 4:21-33

18 Then the divisions of the camp of Reuben set out under their standard, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command. ‡ Num 2:10-16Num 1:5Num 26:5-18Num 7:35 19 Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon, ‡ Num 1:6Num 7:36 20 and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad. ‡ Num 1:14Num 2:14Num 7:42 21 Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival. ‡ Num 10:17Num 4:4-16Num 7:91Ch 15:12-151Ch 15:2Num 1:51Num 2:17Num 3:27-32 +1

22 Next, the divisions of the camp of Ephraim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command. ‡ Num 2:18-24Num 1:10Gen 48:19Num 26:23-41Num 7:48Psa 80:1-2 23 Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh, ‡ Num 1:10Num 7:54 24 and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin. ‡ Num 1:11Num 7:60

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. ‡ Jos 6:9Num 1:12Deu 25:17-18Gen 49:16-17Isa 52:12Isa 58:8Num 2:25-31Num 26:42-51 +126 Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher, ‡ Num 1:13Num 7:72 27 and Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali. ‡ Num 1:15Num 7:78

28 This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out. ‡ Num 2:341Co 14:331Co 14:40Col 2:5Num 10:35-36Num 24:4-5Sng 6:10

29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel ¹the 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.” ‡ Gen 12:7Exo 2:18Exo 3:1Jdg 4:11Exo 3:8Exo 6:7-8Gen 32:12Jdg 1:16 +14

30 “I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.” ‡ 2Co 5:16Gen 12:1Gen 31:30Heb 11:13Heb 11:8Luk 14:26Mat 21:29Psa 45:10 +1

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. ‡ Job 29:151Co 12:14-21Gal 6:2Psa 32:8 32 If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.” ‡ Jdg 1:161Jn 1:3Deu 10:18Psa 22:27-31Psa 67:5-7Jdg 4:11

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. ‡ Deu 1:33Exo 3:11Sa 4:3Deu 31:26Deu 9:9Exo 19:3Exo 24:17-18Exo 33:14-15 +1534 And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp. ‡ Neh 9:12Neh 9:19Psa 105:39Exo 13:21-22Num 9:15-23

35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, ‡ Psa 68:1-2Deu 32:41Deu 7:10Isa 17:12-14Isa 51:9Psa 132:8

“Rise up, O LORD!

May Your enemies be scattered;

may those who hate You flee before You.”

36 And when it came to rest, he would say: ‡ Deu 1:10Gen 24:60Isa 63:17Psa 90:13-17

“Return, O LORD,

to the countless thousands of Israel.”