Numbers 10:1-12

¹Yahweh also told Moses/me,

²“ Tell someone to make two trumpets by hammering each one from one lump of silver. Blow the trumpets to summon the people to come together and also to signal that they must move their tents to a new location.

³If both trumpets are blown, it means that everyone must gather together at the entrance of the Sacred Tent.

⁴If only one trumpet is blown, it means that only the twelve leaders of the tribes must gather together.

⁵If the trumpets are blown loudly, the tribes that are to the east of the Sacred Tent should start to travel.

⁶When the trumpets are blown loudly the second time, the tribes that are to the south should start to travel. The loud blasts on the trumpet will signal that they should start to travel.

⁷When you want only to gather the people together, blow the trumpets, but do not blow them as loudly.

⁸The priests who are descended from Aaron are the ones who should blow the trumpets. That is a regulation that will never be changed.

⁹When you fight against enemies who attack you in your own land, tell the priests to blow the trumpets loudly. I, Yahweh, your God, will hear that, and I will rescue you from your enemies.

¹⁰Also tell the priests to blow the trumpets when the people are happy, and at the festivals each year, and at the times when they celebrate the new moon each month. Tell them to blow the trumpets when the people bring offerings that will be completely burned, and when they bring offerings to maintain fellowship with me. If they do that, it will help you to remember that I, Yahweh your God, will help you.”

¹¹On the twentieth day of May in the second year after the/we Israelis left Egypt, the cloud rose up from above the Sacred Tent.

¹²So we/the Israelis traveled from the Sinai Desert, and we/they continued traveling north until the cloud stopped in the Paran Desert.