Numbers Chapter 10 The Silver Trumpets

The Lord spoke to Moses saying,

Make two silver trumpets of hammered work you shall make them,

and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.

And when both are blown, all the congregation shall

gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. But if they blow only one,

then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. When you blow an

alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out, and when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out, and when you blow an alarm the second time,

the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not sound an alarm.

And the sons of Aaron, the priest, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you

for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. And when you go to war in your land against

the adversary who opposes you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets that you may be

remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of

your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and go over the sacrifices

of your peace offerings.

They shall be a reminder of you before your God.

I am the Lord your God. Israel leaves Sinai. In the second year,

in the second month, on the 20th day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the

testimony, and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud

settled down in the wilderness of Paran. They set out for the first time from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled down in the wilderness

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