Numbers 10:10–28

¹⁰Also on joyful occasions—at your New Moon Festivals and your other religious festivals—you are to blow the trumpets when you present your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings. Then I will help you. I am the Lord your God.”

The Israelites Break Camp

¹¹On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year after the people left Egypt, the cloud over the Tent of the Lord’s presence lifted, ¹²and the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.

¹³They began to march at the command of the Lord through Moses, ¹⁴and each time they moved, they were in the same order. Those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Judah started out first, company by company, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command. ¹⁵Nethanel son of Zuar was in command of the tribe of Issachar, ¹⁶and Eliab son of Helon was in command of the tribe of Zebulun.

¹⁷Then the Tent would be taken down, and the clans of Gershon and Merari, who carried it, would start out.

¹⁸Next, those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Reuben would start out, company by company, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command. ¹⁹Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was in command of the tribe of Simeon, ²⁰and Eliasaph son of Deuel was in command of the tribe of Gad.

²¹Then the Levite clan of Kohath would start out, carrying the sacred objects. By the time they arrived at the next camp, the Tent had been set up again.

²²Next, those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Ephraim would start out, company by company, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command. ²³Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was in command of the tribe of Manasseh, ²⁴and Abidan son of Gideoni was in command of the tribe of Benjamin.

²⁵Finally, those under the banner of the division led by the tribe of Dan, serving as the rearguard of all the divisions, would start out, company by company, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command. ²⁶Pagiel son of Ochran was in command of the tribe of Asher, ²⁷and Ahira son of Enan was in command of the tribe of Naphtali. ²⁸This, then, was the order of march, company by company, whenever the Israelites broke camp and set out.