6. When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south will set out. They will blow an alarm for their setting out.
7. But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you will blow, but you will not sound an alarm.
8. The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow the trumpets, and they will be to you as an ordinance forever throughout your generations.
9. And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you will blow an alarm with the trumpets, and 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 at your appointed days, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings that they may be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.
11. And it was on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was lifted up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
12. The children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran.
13. And they set out for the first time at the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
14. And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set out first by their armies, and over his armies was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
15. Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.
16. Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
17. The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.
18. The standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their armies, and over his armies was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
19. Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
20. Over the armies of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
21. The Kohathites set out, carrying the sanctuary, and they set up the tabernacle before they came.
22. The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set out by their armies, and over his armies was Elishama the son of Ammihud.