2. Make two trumpets of silver; of hammered or turned work you shall make them, that you may use them to call the congregation and for breaking camp.
3. When they both are blown, all the congregation shall assemble before you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
4. And if one blast on a single trumpet is blown, then the princes or leaders, heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
5. When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east side [of the tabernacle] shall set out.
6. When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps on the south side shall set out. An alarm shall be blown whenever they are to set out on their journeys.
7. When the congregation is to be assembled, you shall blow [the trumpets in short, sharp tones], but not the blast of an alarm.
8. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets, and the trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
9. When you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then blow an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
10. Also in the day of rejoicing, and in your set feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; thus they may be a remembrance before your God. I am the Lord your God.
11. On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year [since leaving Egypt], the cloud [of the Lord's presence] was taken up from over the tabernacle of the Testimony,
12. And the Israelites took their journey by stages out of the Wilderness of Sinai, and the [guiding] cloud rested in the Wilderness of Paran.
13. When the journey was to begin, at the command of the Lord through Moses,
14. In the first place went the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah by their companies; and over their host was Nahshon son of Amminadab.
15. And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar was Nethanel son of Zuar.
16. And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun was Eliab son of Helon.
17. When the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and Merari, bearing [it] on their shoulders, set out.
18. The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward by their companies; and over Reuben's host was Elizur son of Shedeur.
19. And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Simeon was Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.