and the lord spake unto moses saying
make thee two trumpets of silver of a whole piece shalt thou make them that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly and for the journeying of the camps
and when they shall blow with them all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and if they blow but with one trumpet then the princes which are heads of the thousands of israel shall gather
when ye blow an alarm then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward
when ye blow an alarm the second time then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey they shall blow an alarm for their journeys
but when the congregation is to be gathered together ye shall blow but ye shall not sound an alarm
and the sons of aaron the priests shall blow with the trumpets and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations
and if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets and ye shall be remembered before the lord your god and ye shall be saved from your enemies
also in the day of your gladness and in your solemn days and in the beginnings of your months ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings that they may be to you for a memorial before your god i am the lord your god
and it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month in the second year that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony
and the children of israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of sinai and the cloud rested in the wilderness of paran
and they first took their journey according to the commandment of the lord by the hand of moses
in the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of judah according to their armies and over his host was nahshon the son of amminadab
and over the host of the tribe of the children of issachar was nethaneel the son of zuar
and over the host of the tribe of the children of zebulun was eliab the son of helon
and the tabernacle was taken down and the sons of gershon and the sons of merari set forward bearing the tabernacle
and the standard of the camp of reuben set forward according to their armies and over his host was elizur the son of shedeur
and over the host of the tribe of the children of simeon was shelumiel the son of zurishaddai
and over the host of the tribe of the children of gad was eliasaph the son of deuel
and the kohathites set forward bearing the sanctuary and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came
and the standard of the camp of the children of ephraim set forward according to their armies and over his host was elishama the son of ammihud
and over the host of the tribe of the children of manasseh was gamaliel the son of pedahzur
and over the host of the tribe of the children of benjamin was abidan the son of gideoni
and the standard of the camp of the children of dan set forward which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts and over his host was ahiezer the son of ammishaddai
and over the host of the tribe of the children of asher was pagiel the son of ocran
and over the host of the tribe of the children of naphtali was ahira the son of enan
thus were the journeyings of the children of israel according to their armies when they set forward
and moses said unto hobab the son of raguel the midianite moses father in law we are journeying unto the place of which the lord said i will give it you come thou with us and we will do thee good for the lord hath spoken good concerning israel
and he said unto him i will not go but i will depart to mine own land and to my kindred
and he said leave us not i pray thee forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes
and it shall be if thou go with us yea it shall be that what goodness the lord shall do unto us the same will we do
and they departed from the mount of the lord three days journey and the ark of the covenant of the lord went before them in the three days journey to search out a resting place
and the cloud of the lord was upon them by day when they went out of the camp
and it came to pass when the ark set forward that moses said rise up lord and let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hate thee flee before
and when it rested he said return o lord unto the many thousands of israel