New American Standard Bible

Numbers 10:4-15 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

4. Yet if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you.

5. But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.

6. When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.

7. When convening the assembly, however, you shall blow without sounding an alarm.

8. The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

9. When you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved from your enemies.

10. Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the Lord your God."

11. Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony;

12. and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

13. So they moved out for the first time according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.

14. The standard of the camp of the sons of Judah, according to their armies, set out first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its army,

15. and Nethanel the son of Zuar, over the tribal army of the sons of Issachar;