Numbers 10 : 1 (NLV)
The Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 10 : 2 (NLV)
"Make two silver horns of beaten silver. Use them for calling the people together and for having the people move on.
Numbers 10 : 3 (NLV)
When both horns sound, all the people will gather in front of you at the door of the meeting tent.
Numbers 10 : 4 (NLV)
If only one horn sounds, then the leaders, the heads of the families of Israel, will gather in front of you.
Numbers 10 : 5 (NLV)
When you blow the horn to tell of danger, the people whose tents are on the east side will leave.
Numbers 10 : 6 (NLV)
When you blow the horn to tell of danger a second time, the people whose tents are on the south side will leave. A horn telling of danger will be blown when they are to move on.
Numbers 10 : 7 (NLV)
But when the people are to be gathered together, you will blow the horn without the sound of danger.
Numbers 10 : 8 (NLV)
Aaron's sons, the religious leaders, will blow the horns. This will be a Law for all your people forever.
Numbers 10 : 9 (NLV)
When you go to war in your land against those who fight you, then sound the horns to tell of war. That way you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved from those who hate you.
Numbers 10 : 10 (NLV)
On the days you are glad and at the time of your special suppers and on the first days of your months, blow the horns. Blow the horns over your burnt gifts and over your peace gifts. Then you will be remembered before your God. I am the Lord your God."
Numbers 10 : 11 (NLV)
On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, the cloud was lifted from over the meeting tent of the Law.
Numbers 10 : 12 (NLV)
The people of Israel moved on from the Desert of Sinai. Then the cloud came down and rested in the desert of Paran.
Numbers 10 : 13 (NLV)
So they moved for the first time as the Lord had told them through Moses.
Numbers 10 : 14 (NLV)
The flag of the people of Judah left first, by their armies. Amminadab's son Nahshon was the head of their army.
Numbers 10 : 15 (NLV)
Zuar's son Nethanel was the head of the men of Issachar.
Numbers 10 : 16 (NLV)
And Helon's son Eliab was the head of the men of Zebulun.
Numbers 10 : 17 (NLV)
When the meeting tent was taken down, the sons of Gershon and Merari left carrying it.
Numbers 10 : 18 (NLV)
Next the flag of the people of Reuben left, by their armies. Shedeur's son Elizur was the head over this army.
Numbers 10 : 19 (NLV)
Zurishaddai's son Shelumiel was the head of the men of Simeon.
Numbers 10 : 20 (NLV)
Deuel's son Eliasaph was the head of the men of Gad.
Numbers 10 : 21 (NLV)
Then the Kohathites left, carrying the holy objects. The meeting tent was set up before they came to the next place.
Numbers 10 : 22 (NLV)
Next the flag of the people of Ephraim left, by their armies. Ammihud's son Elishama was the head over this army.
Numbers 10 : 23 (NLV)
Pedahzur's son Gamaliel was the head of the men of Manasseh.
Numbers 10 : 24 (NLV)
Gideoni's son Abidan was the head of the men of Benjamin.
Numbers 10 : 25 (NLV)
Then the flag of the people of Dan left, by their armies. They followed behind all the people of Israel, to watch for danger. Ammishaddai's son Ahiezer was the head over this army.
Numbers 10 : 26 (NLV)
Ochran's son Pagiel was the head of the men of Asher.
Numbers 10 : 27 (NLV)
And Enan's son Ahira was the head of the men of Naphtali.
Numbers 10 : 28 (NLV)
This was how the people of Israel moved on by their armies.
Numbers 10 : 29 (NLV)
Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are going to the place the Lord said He will give to us. Come with us and we will do you good. For the Lord has promised good to Israel."
Numbers 10 : 30 (NLV)
But Hobab said to him, "I will not come. I will go to my own land and family."
Numbers 10 : 31 (NLV)
Moses said, "I beg you, do not leave us. For you know where we should stay in the desert. You will be like eyes for us.
Numbers 10 : 32 (NLV)
If you go with us, we will do for you whatever good the Lord does for us."
Numbers 10 : 33 (NLV)
So they traveled for three days from the mountain of the Lord with the special box with the Law of the Lord in front of them looking for a place for them to rest.
Numbers 10 : 34 (NLV)
The cloud of the Lord was over them during the day, when they moved on.
Numbers 10 : 35 (NLV)
When the special box of the Lord moved on, Moses said, "Rise up, O Lord! Let those who hate You be divided. Let those who hate You run away before You."
Numbers 10 : 36 (NLV)
And when it rested, he said, "Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel."
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