Chapter 10

1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, 2‘Make to thee two trumpets of silver; beaten work thou dost make them, and they have been to thee for the convocation of the company, and for the journeying of the camps; 3and they have blown with them, and all the company have met together unto thee, unto the opening of the tent of meeting. 4And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee;

5 ‘And ye have blown—a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed.

6 ‘And ye have blown—a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys.

7 ‘And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout; 8and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.

9 ‘And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies.

10 ‘And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, am your God.’

11 And it cometh to pass—in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month—the cloud hath gone up from off the tabernacle of the testimony, 12and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran; 13and they journey at first, by the command of Jehovah, in the hand of Moses. 14And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah journeyeth in the first place, by their hosts, and over its host is Nahshon son of Amminadab. 15And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar is Nathaneel son of Zuar. 16And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon; 17And the tabernacle hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle. 18And the standard of the camp of Reuben hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elizur son of Shedeur. 19And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. 20And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel; 21And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in. 22And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim hath journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host is Elishama son of Ammihud. 23And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh is Gamalial son of Pedahzur. 24And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni. 25And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan hath journeyed (rearward to all the camps), by their hosts, and over its host is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. 26And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran. 27And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan. 28These are journeyings of the sons of Israel by their hosts—and they journey.

29 And Moses saith to Hobab son of Raguel the Midianite, father-in-law of Moses, ‘We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah hath said, I give it to you; go with us, and we have done good to thee; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.’ 30And he saith unto him, ‘I do not go; but unto my land and unto my kindred do I go.’ 31And he saith, ‘I pray thee, forsake us not, because thou hast known our encamping in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us for eyes; 32and it hath come to pass when thou goest with us, yea, it hath come to pass—that good which Jehovah doth kindly with us—it we have done kindly to thee.’ 33And they journey from the mount of Jehovah a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is journeying before them the journey of three days, to spy out for them a resting-place; 34and the cloud of Jehovah is on them by day, in their journeying from the camp. 35And it cometh to pass in the journeying of the ark, that Moses saith, ‘Rise, O Jehovah, and Thine enemies are scattered, and those hating Thee flee from Thy presence.’ 36And in its resting he saith, ‘Return, O Jehovah, to the myriads, the thousands of Israel.’