Numbers 10:10-20

10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God.
11 It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony.
12 The children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
13 They first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
14 In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
15 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.
16 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
17 The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward.
18 The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
19 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
20 Over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

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.

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