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The Silver Trumpets

¹ Yahweh spoke further to Moses, saying,² "Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for ^(C1)summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.³ "^(C1)So both will be blown, and all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting.⁴ "Yet if only one is blown, then the ^(C1)leaders, the heads of the ^(F1)divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you.⁵ "But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched ^(C1)on the east side shall set out.⁶ "Then you will blow an alarm the second time, and the camps that are pitched on ^(C1)the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.⁷ "When convening the assembly, however, you shall blow without ^(C1)sounding an alarm.⁸ "^(C1)The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and ^(F1)this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.⁹ "Now when you go to war in your land against the adversary who ^(C1)attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be ^(C2)remembered before Yahweh your God and be saved from your enemies.¹⁰ "Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed ^(F1)feasts, and on the first days of your months, ^(C1)you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a remembrance of you before your God. I am Yahweh your God."

Israel Sets Out from Sinai

¹¹ Now it happened in ^(C1)the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, that the cloud was lifted from over the ^(F1)tabernacle of the testimony;¹² and the sons of Israel set out on ^(C1)their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the ^(C2)wilderness of Paran.^13 (C1)So they moved out for the first time according to the ^(F1)command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.¹⁴ And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah, according to their armies, ^(C1)set out first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its army,¹⁵ and Nethanel the son of Zuar, over the tribal army of the sons of Issachar;¹⁶ and Eliab the son of Helon over the tribal army of the sons of Zebulun.

^17 (C1)Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, set out.¹⁸ Next ^(C1)the standard of the camp of Reuben, according to their armies, set out with Elizur the son of Shedeur, over its army,¹⁹ and Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai over the tribal army of the sons of Simeon,²⁰ and Eliasaph the son of Deuel over the tribal army of the sons of Gad.

^21 (C1)Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and ^(C2)the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.^22 (C1)Next the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim, according to their armies, set out, with Elishama the son of Ammihud over its army,²³ and Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur over the tribal army of the sons of Manasseh;²⁴ and Abidan the son of Gideoni over the tribal army of the sons of Benjamin.

^25 (C1)Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, according to their armies, which formed the ^(C2)rear guard for all the camps, set out, with Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai over its army,²⁶ and Pagiel the son of Ochran over the tribal army of the sons of Asher;²⁷ and Ahira the son of Enan over the tribal army of the sons of Naphtali.^28 (F1)This was the order of march of the sons of Israel by their armies as they set out.

²⁹ Then Moses said to ^(C1)Hobab the son of ^(C2)Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out to the place of which Yahweh said, '^(C3)I will give it to you'; ^(C4)come with us and we will do you good, for Yahweh ^(C5)has ^(F1)promised good concerning Israel."³⁰ But he said to him, "^(C1)I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and kin."³¹ Then he said, "Please do not leave us, inasmuch as you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you ^(C1)will be as eyes for us.³² "So it will be, if you go with us, that ^(F1)(C1)whatever good Yahweh ^(F2)does for us, ^(C2)we will ^(F3)do for you."

^33 (C1)Thus they set out from the mount of Yahweh three days' journey, with ^(C2)the ark of the covenant of Yahweh journeying in front of them for the ^(F1)three days, to spy out ^(C3)a resting place for them.^34 (C1)Now the cloud of Yahweh was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

³⁵ Then it happened when the ark set out that Moses said,

"^(C1)Rise up, O Yahweh!
And let Your enemies be scattered,
And let those ^(C2)who hate You flee ^(F1)before You."