3. When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
4. If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
5. When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.
6. When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
7. But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
8. “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the shofars. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
9. When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the shofars. Then you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
10. “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the shofars over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before 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 taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.
12. The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
13. They first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses.
14. First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.
15. Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.
16. Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.
17. The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.
18. The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.
19. Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.