The silver trumpets and their use. They march from Sinai.
10:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
10:2. Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest
call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.
10:3. And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall
gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant.
10:4. If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude
of Israel shall come to thee.
10:5. But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with
interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.
10:6. And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who
lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner
shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march.
10:7. But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the
trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound.
10:8. And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and
this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.
10:9. If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that
fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there
shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be
delivered out of the hands of your enemies.
10:10. If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival
days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets
over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they
may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.
10:11. The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the
month, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant.
10:12. And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the
desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.
10:13. And the first went forward according to the commandment of the
Lord by the hand of Moses.
10:14. The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the
son of Aminadab.
10:15. In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Nathanael
the son of Suar.
10:16. In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.
10:17. And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and
Merari set forward, bearing it.
10:18. And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks,
whose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur.
10:19. And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the son of
Surisaddai.
10:20. And in the tribe of Gad, the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel.
10:21. Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long
was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it
up.
10:22. The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in
whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.
10:23. And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was Gamaliel
the son of Phadassur.
10:24. And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the son of
Gedeon.
10:25. The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their troops,
in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.
10:26. And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the
son of Ochran.
10:27. And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the prince was Ahira
the son of Enan.
10:28. This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of
Israel by their troops, when they set forward.
10:29. And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his
kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us:
come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good
things to Israel.
10:30. But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return
to my country, wherein I was born.
10:31. And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we
should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.
10:32. And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of
the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us.
10:33. So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days' journey,
and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three days
providing a place for the camp.
10:34. The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they
marched.
10:35. And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and
let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from
before thy face.
10:36. And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the
multitude of the host of Israel.