Numbers 10:10–28

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.”

The Israelites Depart from Sinai

¹¹And it happened, in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month the cloud was lifted from upon the tabernacle of the testimony.^{d 12}And the Israelites^e set out for their journey^f from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran. ¹³They set out for the first time^g on the command of Yahweh in the hand of Moses.^{h 14}The standard of the camp of the descendantsⁱ of Judah set out for the first time according to their divisions, with Nahshon son of Amminadab over its division. ¹⁵And Nathanel son of Zuar was over the division of the descendants^j of Issachar; ¹⁶Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of the descendants^k of Zebulun.

¹⁷The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle, set out. ¹⁸And the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions; Elizur son of Shedeur was over their division. ¹⁹Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the sons of the tribe of Simeon. ²⁰Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of the descendants^l of Gad.

²¹The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived. ²²And the stand of the camp of the descendants^m of Ephraim set out according to their divisions; Elishama son of Ammihud was over its division. ²³Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of the descendantsⁿ of Manasseh. ²⁴Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of the descendants^o of Benjamin.

²⁵Then the standard of the camp of the descendants^p of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over its division. ²⁶Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of the descendants^q of Asher. ²⁷Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of the descendants^r of Naphtali. ²⁸These were the departures of the Israelites^s according to their divisions; and so they set out.