Numbers 10:7-15

⁷To summon the people, blow the trumpets normally, not the loud alarm signal.

⁸Aaron's descendants are to blow the trumpets. This regulation is for all time and for all future generations.

⁹When you're in your own land and have to go into battle against an enemy who has attacked you, blow the alarm signal and the Lord your God won't forget you—he will save you from your enemies.

¹⁰Blow the trumpets when you celebrate too, at your regular feasts and at the beginning of each month. This is when you give your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings which act as a reminder for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”

¹¹The cloud rose up from the Tabernacle of the Testimony on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year.

¹²The Israelites left the Desert of Sinai and moved from place to place until the cloud stopped in the Desert of Paran.

¹³This was the first time they moved out following the Lord's command through Moses.

¹⁴The tribal divisions of Judah went first, marching out under their flag, with Nahshon, son of Amminadab, in charge.

¹⁵Nethanel, son of Zuar, was in charge of the tribal division of Issachar,