Numbers 10:1-13 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

2 “Make two trumpets of silver for yourself; you make them of beaten work, and they have been for you for the convocation of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps;

3 and they have blown with them, and all the congregation has assembled to you at the opening of the Tent of Meeting.

4 And if they blow with one, then the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, have assembled to you;

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

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

7 And in the assembling of the assembly you blow, and do not shout;

8 and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been for a continuous statute to you throughout your generations.

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

10 And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed times, and in the beginnings of your months, you have also blown with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been for a memorial to you before your God; I [am] your God YHWH.”

11 And it comes to pass, in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud has gone up from off the Dwelling Place of the Testimony,

12 and the sons of Israel journey in their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud dwells in the wilderness of Paran;

13 and they journey at first by the command of YHWH in the hand of Moses.