Numbers 10:1

CHAPTER X

Moses is commanded to make two silver trumpets for calling the

assembly, 1, 2.

On what occasions these trumpets should be sounded. First, for

calling the assembly to the door of the tabernacle, 3.

Secondly, to summon the princes and captains of the thousands

of Israel, 4.

Thirdly, to make the eastern camps strike their tents, 5.

Fourthly, to make those on the south do the like, 6.

No alarm to be sounded when the congregation only is to be

assembled, 7.

The sons of Aaron alone shall sound these trumpets, it shall be

a perpetual ordinance, 8.

Fifthly, the trumpets are to be sounded in the time of war, 9.

Sixthly, on festival occasions, 10

On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year,

the Israelites began their journey from the wilderness of Sinai,

and came to the wilderness of Paran, 11, 12.

By the commandment of God to Moses the first division, at the

head of which was the standard of JUDAH, marched, first, 13, 14.

Under him followed the tribe of ISSACHAR, 15;

and after them the tribe of ZEBULUN, 16.

Then the Gershonites and Merarites followed with the tabernacle, 17.

At the head of the second division was the standard and camp of

REUBEN, 18;

and under him were that of SIMEON, 19;

and that of GAD, 20.

Next followed the Kohathites bearing the sanctuary, 21.

Then followed the third division, at the head of which was the

standard of the camp of EPHRAIM, 22;

and under him MANASSEH, 23;

and BENJAMIN, 24.

At the head of the fourth division was the standard of the camp

of DAN, 25;

and under him ASHER, 26;

and NAPHTALI, 27.

This was their ordinary method of marching in the wilderness, 28.

Moses entreats Hobab the Midianite to accompany them through the

wilderness, 29.

He refuses, 30.

Moses continues and strengthens his entreaties with reasonings

and promises, 31, 32.

They depart from Sinai three days' journey, 33.

The cloud accompanies them by day and night, 34.

The words used by Moses when the ark set forward, 35,

and when it rested, 36.

NOTES ON CHAP. X