Numbers 10:6-16

6 When you sound short blasts a second time, the camps pitched on the south[a] are to set out. Short blasts are to be sounded for them to set out.
7 When calling the assembly together, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.
8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. Your use of these is a permanent statute throughout your generations.
9 "When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God and be delivered from your enemies.[b]
10 You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am the Lord your God."[c]

From Sinai to Paran

11 During the second year, in the second month on the twentieth [day] of the month, the cloud was lifted up above the tabernacle of the testimony.
12 The Israelites traveled on from the Wilderness of Sinai, moving from one place to the next[d] until the cloud stopped in the Wilderness of Paran.[e]
13 They set out for the first time according to the Lord's command through Moses.[f]
14 The military divisions of the camp of Judah with their banner set out first, and Nahshon son of Amminadab[g] was over Judah's divisions.
15 Nethanel son of Zuar[h] was over the division of the Issachar tribe,
16 and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the Zebulun tribe.

Numbers 10:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10

This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Nu 10:1-10; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Nu 10:11-28; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Nu 10:29-32; and the chapter is closed with the prayer of Moses at the setting forward of the ark, and the resting of it, Nu 10:33-36.

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