1. The Lord spoke to Moses:
2. Make two silver trumpets and make them from hammered metalwork. Use them for summoning the community and for breaking camp.
3. When both are blown, the entire community will meet you at the entrance of the meeting tent.
4. When one is blown, the chiefs, the leaders of Israel’s divisions, will meet you.
5. When you blow a series of short blasts, the camp on the east side will march.
6. And when you blow a second series of short blasts, the camp on the south side will march. You will blow a series of short blasts to announce their march.
7. To gather the assembly, blow a long blast, not a series of short blasts.
8. Aaron’s sons the priests will blow the trumpets. This will be a permanent regulation for you throughout time.
9. When you go to war in your land against an enemy who is attacking you, you will blow short blasts with the trumpets so that you may be remembered by the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies.
10. On your festival days, your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you will blow the trumpets over your entirely burned offerings and your well-being sacrifices. They will serve as a reminder of you to your God. I am the Lord your God.
11. On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, the cloud ascended from the covenant dwelling.
12. The Israelites set out on their march from the Sinai desert, and the cloud settled in the Paran desert.
13. They marched for the first time at the Lord’s command through Moses.
14. The banner of Judah’s camp marched first with its military units. Nahshon, Amminadab’s son, commanded its military.
15. Nethanel, Zuar’s son, commanded the military of the tribe of Issachar.
16. Eliab, Helon’s son, commanded the military of the tribe of Zebulun.
17. The dwelling was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites, who carried the dwelling, marched.