Numbers 10

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The LORD said to Moses:

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"Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for

calling the community together and for having the camps

set out.

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When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble

before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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If only one is sounded, the leaders - the heads of the clans

of Israel - are to assemble before you.

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When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east

are to set out.

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At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are

to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out.

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To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the

same signal.

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"The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to blow the trumpets.

This is to be a lasting ordinance for you and the generations

to come.

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When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy

who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets.

Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and

rescued from your enemies.

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Also at your time of rejoicing - your appointed feasts and

New Moon festivals -  you are to sound the trumpets over

your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they

will be a memorial for you before your God.

I am the LORD your God."

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On the twentieth day of the second month of the second

year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the

Testimony.

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Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and

traveled from place to place until the cloud came to

rest in the Desert of Paran.

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They set out, this first time, at the LORD's command

through Moses.

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The divisions of the camp of Judah went first, under their

standard. Nahshon son of Amminadab was in command.

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Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe

of Issachar,

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and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe

of Zrbulun.

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Then the tabernacle was taken downm and the Gershonites

and Merarites, who carried it, set out.

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The divisions of the campof Reuben went next, under

their standard. Elizur son of Shedeur was in command.

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Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the

tribe of Simeon,

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and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the

tribe of Gad.

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Then the KOHathites set out, carrying the holy things.

The tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.

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The divisions of the camp of Ephraim went next, under

their standard. Elishama son of Ammihud was in command.

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Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the

tribe of Manasseh,

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and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of

the tribe of Benjamin.

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Finally, as the rear guard for all the units, the divisions

of the camp of Dan set out, under their standard.

Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was in command.

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Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the

tribe of Asher,

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and Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the

tribe of Naphtali.

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This was the order of march for the Israelites divisions

as they set out.

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Now Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite,

Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place

about which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.'

Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD

has promised good things to Israel."

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He answered, "No, I will not go; I am going back to my

own land and my own people."

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But Moses said, "Please do not leave us. You know

where we should camp in the desert, and you can

be our eyes.

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If you come with us, we will share with you whatever

good things the LORD gives us."

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So they set out from the mountain of the LORD and

traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of

the LORD went before them during those three days

to find them a place to rest.

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The cloud of the LORD was over them by day when

they set out from the camp.

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Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Rise up, O LORD!

May your enemies be scattered; may your foes flee

before you."

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Whenever it came to rest, he said, "Retrurn, O LORD,

to the countless thousands of Israel."