Numbers 10:6-16

6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, ¹the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ²you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not ³sound an alarm.

8 ⁴And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

9 And ⁵when you go to war in your land against the adversary who ⁶oppresses you, then you shall ⁷sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be ⁸remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

10 ⁹On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and ¹⁰at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be ¹¹a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God. ”

Israel Leaves Sinai

11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, ¹²the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

12 and the people of Israel ¹³set out by stages from the ¹⁴wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the ¹⁵wilderness of Paran.

13 They set out for the first time ¹⁶at the command of the Lord by Moses.

14 The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out ¹⁷first by their companies, and over their company was ¹⁸Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

15 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.

16 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

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.

Cross References

• 1. 10:6 ver. 18; See ch. 2:10-16
• 2. 10:7 ver. 3
• 3. 10:7 Joel 2:1
• 4. 10:8 1 Chr. 15:24; 2 Chr. 13:12
• 5. 10:9 ch. 31:6; 2 Chr. 13:14; [Josh. 6:5]
• 6. 10:9 Judg. 2:18; 4:3; 10:8, 12; 1 Sam. 10:18
• 7. 10:9 [See ver. 7 above]
• 8. 10:9 See Gen. 8:1
• 9. 10:10 ch. 29:1; 1 Chr. 15:24; 2 Chr. 5:12, 13; 7:6; 29:26-28; Ezra 3:10; Neh. 12:35
• 10. 10:10 Ps. 81:3; See ch. 28:11
• 11. 10:10 ver. 9
• 12. 10:11 ch. 9:17
• 13. 10:12 [Ex. 40:36]
• 14. 10:12 ch. 1:1; 9:5; Ex. 19:1, 2
• 15. 10:12 ch. 12:16; 13:3, 26; Gen. 21:21; Deut. 1:1
• 16. 10:13 ver. 5, 6; ch. 2:34
• 17. 10:14 See ch. 2:3-9
• 18. 10:14 For ver. 14-16, see ch. 1:7-9