Numbers 10:11-21

11 The cloud lifted from the Tent of the Agreement on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year.

12 So the Israelites moved from the Desert of Sinai and continued until the cloud stopped in the Desert of Paran.

13 This was their first time to move, and they did it as the Lord had commanded Moses.

14 The divisions from the camp of Judah moved first under their flag. Nahshon son of Amminadab was the commander.

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

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

17 Then the Holy Tent was taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites, who carried it, moved next.

18 Then came the divisions from the camp of Reuben under their flag, and Elizur son of Shedeur was the commander.

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

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

21 Then came the Kohathites, who carried the holy things; the Holy Tent was to be set up before they arrived.

Numbers 10:11-21 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.