Numbers 10

1Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Ex 25:18 · Ex 25:31 · Num 10:7 · 2Ki 12:13 · 2Chr 5:12 · Ps 81:3 · +5 more

3When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.Cross-references: Jer 4:5 · Joel 2:15

4If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.Cross-references: Ex 18:21 · Num 1:4 · Num 7:2 · Deut 1:15

5When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.Cross-references: Num 2:3 · Num 10:6 · Num 10:14 · Isa 58:1 · Joel 2:1

6When 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.Cross-references: Num 2:10 · Num 10:18

7But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.Cross-references: Num 10:3 · Joel 2:1

8“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.Cross-references: Num 31:6 · Josh 6:4 · 1Chr 15:24 · 1Chr 16:6 · 2Chr 13:12

9When 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.Cross-references: Gen 8:1 · Num 31:6 · Josh 6:5 · Judg 2:18 · Judg 3:27 · Judg 4:2 · +24 more

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.”Cross-references: Ex 28:29 · Ex 30:16 · Lev 23:24 · Lev 25:9 · Num 10:9 · Num 29:1 · +23 more

11In 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.Cross-references: Ex 40:2 · Ex 40:17 · Num 1:1 · Num 9:1 · Num 9:5 · Num 9:11 · +1 more

12The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.Cross-references: Gen 21:21 · Ex 13:20 · Ex 19:1 · Ex 40:36 · Num 1:1 · Num 9:1 · +10 more

13They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.Cross-references: Num 9:23 · Deut 1:6

14First, 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.Cross-references: Gen 49:8 · Num 1:7 · Num 2:3 · Num 7:12 · Num 26:19

15Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.Cross-references: Num 1:8 · Num 7:18

16Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.Cross-references: Num 1:9 · Num 7:24

17The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.Cross-references: Num 1:51 · Num 3:25 · Num 3:36 · Num 4:21 · Num 7:6 · Heb 9:11 · +2 more

18The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.Cross-references: Num 1:5 · Num 2:10 · Num 7:35 · Num 26:5

19Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.Cross-references: Num 1:6 · Num 7:36

20Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.Cross-references: Num 1:14 · Num 2:14 · Num 7:42

21The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.Cross-references: Num 1:51 · Num 2:17 · Num 3:27 · Num 4:4 · Num 4:20 · Num 7:9 · +3 more

22The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.Cross-references: Gen 48:19 · Num 1:10 · Num 2:18 · Num 7:48 · Num 26:23 · Ps 80:1

23Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.Cross-references: Num 1:10 · Num 7:54

24Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.Cross-references: Num 1:11 · Num 7:60

25The 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.Cross-references: Gen 49:16 · Num 1:12 · Num 2:25 · Num 7:66 · Num 26:42 · Deut 25:17 · +3 more

26Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.Cross-references: Num 1:13 · Num 7:72

27Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.Cross-references: Num 1:15 · Num 7:78

28Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.Cross-references: Num 2:34 · Num 10:35 · Num 24:4 · Song 6:10 · 1Cor 14:33 · 1Cor 14:40 · +1 more

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 to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 32:12 · Ex 2:18 · Ex 3:1 · +16 more

30He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 31:30 · Ruth 1:15 · Ps 45:10 · Matt 21:29 · Luke 14:26 · +3 more

31Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.Cross-references: Job 29:15 · Ps 32:8 · 1Cor 12:14 · Gal 6:2

32It 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.”Cross-references: Deut 10:18 · Judg 1:16 · Judg 4:11 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 67:5 · 1John 1:3

33They 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.Cross-references: Ex 3:1 · Ex 19:3 · Ex 24:17 · Ex 33:14 · Num 10:12 · Deut 1:33 · +17 more

34The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Num 9:15 · Neh 9:12 · Neh 9:19 · Ps 105:39

35When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”Cross-references: Deut 7:10 · Deut 32:41 · Ps 68:1 · Ps 132:8 · Isa 17:12 · Isa 51:9

36When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”Cross-references: Gen 24:60 · Deut 1:10 · Ps 90:13 · Isa 63:17