¹⁰Also blow your trumpets at happy times and during your feasts and at New Moon festivals. Blow them over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, because they will help you remember your God. I am the Lord your God.”

The Israelites Move Camp

¹¹The cloud lifted from the Tent of the Agreement on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year. ¹²So the Israelites moved from the Desert of Sinai and continued until the cloud stopped in the Desert of Paran. ¹³This was their first time to move, and they did it as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹⁴The divisions from the camp of Judah moved first under their flag. Nahshon son of Amminadab was the commander. ¹⁵Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe of Issachar. ¹⁶Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of Zebulun. ¹⁷Then the Holy Tent was taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites, who carried it, moved next.

¹⁸Then came the divisions from the camp of Reuben under their flag, and Elizur son of Shedeur was the commander. ¹⁹Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon. ²⁰Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad. ²¹Then came the Kohathites, who carried the holy things; the Holy Tent was to be set up before they arrived.

²²Next came the divisions from the camp of Ephraim under their flag, and Elishama son of Ammihud was the commander. ²³Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh, ²⁴and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.

²⁵The last ones were the rear guard for all the tribes. These were the divisions from the camp of Dan under their flag, and Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was the commander. ²⁶Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher; ²⁷Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali. ²⁸This was the order the Israelite divisions marched in when they moved.

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