1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them forxIsa. 1:13; Joel 1:14; [Ps. 81:3] summoning the congregation and for breaking camp. 3 And whenyJer. 4:5; Joel 2:15 both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 4 But if they blow only one, thenzch. 1:16; 7:2; Ex. 18:21 the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. 5 When you blow an alarm,aver. 14; See ch. 2:3-9 the camps that are on the east side shall set out. 6 And when you blow an alarm the second time,bver. 18; See ch. 2:10-16 the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out. 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together,cver. 3 you shall blow a long blast, but you shall notdJoel 2:1 sound an alarm. 8 e1 Chr. 15:24; 2 Chr. 13:12 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. 9 Andfch. 31:6; 2 Chr. 13:14; [Josh. 6:5] when you go to war in your land against the adversary whogJudg. 2:18; 4:3; 10:8, 12; 1 Sam. 10:18 oppresses you, then you shalld[See ver. 7 above] sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may behSee Gen. 8:1 remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. 10 ich. 29:1; 1 Chr. 15:24; 2 Chr. 5:12, 13; 7:6; 29:26-28; Ezra 3:10; Neh. 12:35 On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts andjPs. 81:3; See ch. 28:11 at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall bekver. 9 a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God. ”
11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month,lch. 9:17 the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony, 12 and the people of Israelm[Ex. 40:36] set out by stages from thench. 1:1; 9:5; Ex. 19:1, 2 wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in theoch. 12:16; 13:3, 26; Gen. 21:21; Deut. 1:1 wilderness of Paran. 13 They set out for the first timepver. 5, 6; ch. 2:34 at the command of the Lord by Moses. 14 The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set outqSee ch. 2:3-9 first by their companies, and over their company wasrFor ver. 14-16, see ch. 1:7-9 Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 15 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. 16 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
17 And whensch. 1:51 the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari,tSee ch. 4:24-33; 7:6-8 who carried the tabernacle, set out. 18 AnduSee ch. 2:10-16 the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company wasvch. 1:5 Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Simeon waswch. 1:6 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Gad wasxch. 1:14 Eliasaph the son ofy[ch. 2:14] Deuel.
21 Then the Kohathites set out,zch. 7:9; See ch. 4:4-15 carrying the holy things, anda[ver. 17] the tabernacle was set up before their arrival. 22 AndbSee ch. 2:18-24 the standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company wascch. 1:10 Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Manasseh wasc[See ver. 22 above] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 24 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Benjamin wasdch. 1:11 Abidan the son of Gideoni.
25 TheneSee ch. 2:25-31 the standard of the camp of the people of Dan, acting as thef[Josh. 6:9] rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company wasgch. 1:12 Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Asher washch. 1:13 Pagiel the son of Ochran. 27 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Naphtali wasich. 1:15 Ahira the son of Enan. 28 jch. 2:34 This was the order of march of the people of Israel by their companies, when they set out.
29 And Moses said to Hobab the son ofkSee Ex. 2:18 Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said,lGen. 12:7 ‘I will give it to you. ’ Come with us, and we will do good to you, formGen. 32:12; Ex. 3:8; 6:7, 8 the Lord has promised good to Israel. ” 30 But he said to him, “I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred. ” 31 And he said, “Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serven[Job 29:15] as eyes for us. 32 And if you do go with us,over. 29; [Judg. 1:16; 4:11] whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you. ”
33 So they set out frompSee Ex. 3:1 the mount of the Lord three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek outqPs. 132:8; Jer. 31:2 a resting place for them. 34 rSee Ex. 13:21 And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp.
35 And whenever the ark set out, Moses said,sPs. 68:1, 2 “Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you. ” 36 And when it rested, he said, “Return, O Lord, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel. ”