Numbers 9:15–10:10

The Cloud and the Fire

15 And on a day setting up the tabernacle, the cloud covered the tent of the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; in the evening it was on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire until morning. 16 So it wasn continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night. 17 Whenever the cloud lifted up from on the tent, after that the ⌊Israelites⌋o would set out, and in the place where the cloud dwelled, there the ⌊Israelites⌋p camped. 18 On the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋q the ⌊Israelites⌋r would set out, and on the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋s they encamped; all the days that the cloud dwelled on the tabernacle they encamped. 19 And when the cloud prolonged on the tabernacle many days the ⌊Israelites⌋t kept the kept requirement of Yahweh and did not set out. 20 When the cloud ⌊remained⌋u a number of days on the tabernacle, on the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋v they encamped; and on the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋w they set out. 21 When the cloud ⌊remained⌋x from evening until morning, and the cloud lifted up in the morning, they would set out, or if it remained in the daytime and at night, when the cloud lifted up they set out. 22 When it was two days, a month, ⌊or a year⌋y that the cloud prolonged to dwell on the tabernacle, the ⌊Israelites⌋z encamped, and they did not set out; when it lifted up they set out. 23 On the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋a they encamped, and on the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋b they set out. They kept the requirement of Yahweh, on the ⌊command of Yahweh⌋c in the hand of Moses.d

The Silver Trumpets

10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Make yourself two silver trumpets; make them of hammered-work. ⌊You will use them⌋a for calling the community and for breaking the camp. 3 You will blow them, and all the community will assemble to the doorway of the tent of assembly. 4 But if they blow only one, the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will assemble to you. 5 When you will blow a blast, the camps that are camping on the east will set out; 6 when you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys. 7 But when summoning the assembly, you will blow, but you will not signal with a loud noise. 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations. 9 If you go to war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered ⌊before⌋b Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies.

10 “And on the day of your joy and in your appointed times, at the beginning of your months, you will blow on the trumpets in addition to your burnt offerings and in addition to the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. And they will be as a memorial for you ⌊before⌋c your God; I am Yahweh your God.”