Numbers 10:10-20

10 Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—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.”

The Israelites Leave Sinai

11 On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law.

12 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.

13 They set out, this first time, at the LORD’s command through Moses.

14 The divisions of the camp of Judah went first, under their standard. Nahshon son of Amminadab was in command.

15 Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe of Issachar,

16 and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of Zebulun.

17 Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites, who carried it, set out.

18 The divisions of the camp of Reuben went next, under their standard. Elizur son of Shedeur was in command.

19 Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon,

20 and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.

Numbers 10:10-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 28:11; 1 Samuel 20:5,24; 2 Kings 4:23; 2 Chronicles 8:13; Psalms 81:3; Isaiah 1:13; Ezekiel 45:17; Ezekiel 46:6; Amos 8:5
• 2. S Leviticus 23:24
• 3. Leviticus 1:3
• 4. Leviticus 3:1; Numbers 6:14
• 5. Leviticus 11:44
• 6. Exodus 40:17
• 7. Numbers 9:17
• 8. S Exodus 38:21
• 9. S Genesis 14:6; Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 33:2
• 10. Deuteronomy 1:6
• 11. S Numbers 1:52; S Numbers 2:3-9
• 12. Numbers 1:7
• 13. S Leviticus 24:11
• 14. S Numbers 1:8
• 15. S Numbers 2:7
• 16. S Numbers 1:9
• 17. ver 21; Numbers 4:21-32
• 18. Numbers 2:16
• 19. Numbers 2:10-16
• 20. S Numbers 1:5
• 21. Numbers 1:6
• 22. S Numbers 1:14