5. But if the sound of the trumpets is prolonged, but with interruptions, those who are toward the east side shall move the camp first.
6. Then, at the second sounding of the trumpet with the same cadence, those who live toward the south shall take up their tents. And the remainder shall act in like manner, when the trumpets shall reverberate for a departure.
7. But when the people are to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be simple, and the sounds shall not be separated.
8. Now it is the sons of Aaron the priest who shall sound the trumpets. And this shall be an everlasting ordinance, in your generations.
9. If you go forth to war from your land, against the enemies who set out against you, you shall sound the trumpets repeatedly, and there shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, so that you may be rescued from the hands of your enemies.
10. If at any time you will have a banquet, and on feast days, and on the first days of the months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts and the peace-offering victims, so that they may be for you as a remembrance by your God. I am the Lord your God."
11. In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle of the covenant.
12. And the sons of Israel set out by their companies from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
13. And the first to move their camp, according to the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses,
14. were the sons of Judah by their companies, whose leader was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
15. In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the leader was Nathanael the son of Zuar.
16. In the tribe of Zebulon, the leader was Eliab the son of Helon.
17. And the tabernacle was taken down, because the sons of Gershon and Merari, who carry it, were departing.
18. And the sons of Ruben also set out, by their companies and ranks, whose leader was Elizur the son of Shedeur.