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    Numbers 10

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    The ark goes ahead for three days to seek a resting place, while Moses asks Hobab to be the Israelites’ eyes in the wilderness. Numbers is not troubled by having both arrangements at once; it simply packs the luggage.

    Trumpets for a moving campvv. 1–10

    The LORD gives Moses two hammered-silver trumpets, instruments with a remarkably complete vocabulary. Both call the whole congregation; one summons the leaders; short blasts send camps away by direction, while long blasts convene the assembly. The sons of Aaron sound them in battle, at feasts, at the beginning of each month, and over offerings—part signal, part remembrance, and all of it governed by the shape of the blast.

    The order of marchvv. 11–28

    On the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud lifts and the Israelites leave the Wilderness of Sinai. Judah goes first, then the tabernacle’s bearers, then Reuben, then the holy objects with the Kohathites, then Ephraim, and finally Dan as rear guard. It is a procession arranged with the precision of a parade, though the furniture of worship is travelling through the wilderness and the tabernacle is expected to catch up with its own holy contents.

    Eyes, ark, and cloudvv. 29–36

    Moses invites Hobab to come along, promising him a share in whatever good things the LORD gives Israel. Hobab declines, and Moses presses the invitation on the grounds that Hobab knows where to camp and can serve as their eyes. Then the company sets out from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark ahead seeking a resting place and the cloud over them by day. Moses gives the ark two brief speeches: one for departure, asking the LORD to rise and scatter enemies; one for arrival, asking the LORD to return to Israel’s countless thousands.

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    1. Num 10:1Then the LORD said to Moses,

    2. Num 10:2“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.

    3. Num 10:3When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

    4. Num 10:4But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.

    5. Num 10:5When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.

    6. Num 10:6When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.

    7. Num 10:7To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

    8. Num 10:8The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.

    9. Num 10:9When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

    10. Num 10:10And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

    11. Num 10:11On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,

    12. Num 10:12and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

    13. Num 10:13They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.

    14. Num 10:14First, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.

    15. Num 10:15Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe of Issachar,

    16. Num 10:16and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of Zebulun.

    17. Num 10:17Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.

    18. Num 10:18Then the divisions of the camp of Reuben set out under their standard, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command.

    19. Num 10:19Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon,

    20. Num 10:20and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.

    21. Num 10:21Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

    22. Num 10:22Next, the divisions of the camp of Ephraim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command.

    23. Num 10:23Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,

    24. Num 10:24and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.

    25. Num 10:25Finally, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for all units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.

    26. Num 10:26Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher,

    27. Num 10:27and Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali.

    28. Num 10:28This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.

    29. Num 10:29Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

    30. Num 10:30“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

    31. Num 10:31“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

    32. Num 10:32If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

    33. Num 10:33So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

    34. Num 10:34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

    35. Num 10:35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”

    36. Num 10:36And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”

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    • 91 Samuel 10:18and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
    • 9Judges 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
    • 9Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
    • 29Genesis 12:7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
    • 29Exodus 2:18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
    • 3Jeremiah 4:5Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
    • 9Psalms 106:42Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.
    • 92 Chronicles 13:14When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,
    • 9Numbers 31:6And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
    • 9Joshua 6:5And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
    • 29Judges 4:11Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
    • 29Exodus 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
    • 31Job 29:15I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
    • 35Psalms 68:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
    • 4Numbers 7:2And the leaders of Israel, the heads of their families, presented an offering. These men were the tribal leaders who had supervised the registration.
    • 4Exodus 18:21Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

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