Numbers 10

¹⁴Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

¹³Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

³Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

¹⁸Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

⁷To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

⁵Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’

¹⁵Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

¹⁶Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

²¹Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

²And the leaders of Israel, the heads of their families, presented an offering. These men were the tribal leaders who had supervised the registration.

⁴And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.

⁵These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

¹⁵So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.

¹⁴First, the divisions of the camp of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of Amminadab in command.

³On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Judahites is Nahshon son of Amminadab,

⁴and his division numbers 74,600.

¹Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the Lord is coming; indeed, it is near—

⁶When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.

⁷To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

¹“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.

¹⁰On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur,

¹¹and his division numbers 46,500.

¹⁸Then the divisions of the camp of Reuben set out under their standard, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command.

¹Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the Lord is coming; indeed, it is near—

³When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

⁴But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.

⁴Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.

⁵And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”

²⁴Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—the priests—were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be guardians of the ark.

⁶And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

⁶and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

¹²Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with their trumpets sound the battle call against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

¹³Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to ambush from the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.

¹⁸and said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’

¹⁸Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

¹But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

⁴Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.

⁸who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

³Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

²⁶The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

¹⁰When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the Lord, as David king of Israel had prescribed.

²⁴and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

²⁵In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

²⁸The whole assembly was worshiping, the singers were singing, and the trumpeters were playing. All this continued until the burnt offering was completed.

¹⁶For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

¹¹Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

²“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

¹⁷So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.

¹On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:

¹⁷Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.

¹⁸At the Lord’s command the Israelites set out, and at the Lord’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.

¹In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

¹⁶After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

²¹And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

¹In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.

²After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

³So at the command of the Lord, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

⁵and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³⁶Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.

³⁷If the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was taken up.

⁶The Lord our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

²³They camped at the Lord’s command, and they set out at the Lord’s command; they carried out the Lord’s charge according to His command through Moses.

³On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Judahites is Nahshon son of Amminadab,

⁴and his division numbers 74,600.

⁷from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;

⁸Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

¹⁹The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.

²⁰These were the descendants of Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

¹²On the first day Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.

¹⁸On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, drew near.

⁸from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;

⁹from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;

²⁴On the third day Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the Zebulunites, drew near.

⁶So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.

⁷He gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen, as their service required,

⁵¹Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

¹¹But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation.

²¹And the Lord said to Moses,

²²“Take a census of the Gershonites as well, by their families and clans,

¹⁴because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

²⁸Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

¹⁰On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur,

¹¹and his division numbers 46,500.

⁵These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

⁵Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. These were the descendants of Reuben: The Hanochite clan from Hanoch, the Palluite clan from Pallu,

⁶the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.

³⁵and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.

⁶from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

³⁶On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, the leader of the Simeonites, drew near.

¹⁴from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

¹⁴Next will be the tribe of Gad. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel,

⁴²On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the Gadites, drew near.

¹⁷Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.

⁴This service of the Kohathites at the Tent of Meeting regards the most holy things.

⁵Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.

⁹But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they were responsible.

²⁷From Kohath came the clans of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these were the clans of the Kohathites.

²⁸The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.

²⁰But the Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die.”

¹⁷In the middle of the camps, the Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place under his standard.

¹⁸On the west side, the divisions of Ephraim are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud,

¹⁹and his division numbers 40,500.

¹⁰from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

⁴⁸On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, the leader of the Ephraimites, drew near.

¹⁹But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

²³These were the descendants of Issachar by their clans: The Tolaite clan from Tola, the Punite clan from Puvah,

²⁴the Jashubite clan from Jashub, and the Shimronite clan from Shimron.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

²before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.

⁵⁴On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, the leader of the Manassites, drew near.

¹⁰from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

¹¹from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

⁶⁰On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the Benjamites, drew near.

⁹While the horns continued to sound, the armed troops marched ahead of the priests who blew the horns, and the rear guard followed the ark.

¹²from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

¹²For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the Lord goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

⁴²These were the descendants of Dan by their clans: The Shuhamite clan from Shuham. These were the clans of Dan.

⁴³All of them were Shuhamite clans, and their registration numbered 64,400.

²⁵On the north side, the divisions of Dan are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Danites is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai,

²⁶and his division numbers 62,700.

¹⁷Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

¹⁸how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

¹³from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

⁷²On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, the leader of the Asherites, drew near.

¹⁵and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

⁷⁸On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, the leader of the Naphtalites, drew near.

³⁴So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.

³³For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.

³⁵Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”

³⁶And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel.”

¹⁰Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

⁴the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:

⁵How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

⁵For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

⁷Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

¹⁸When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

¹Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

¹¹Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

⁸Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

⁷I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

⁸And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord!’”

³⁰Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

¹⁵“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”

¹⁶But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

¹³All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

¹Then the Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

¹⁰Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

⁸By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

¹⁵I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

¹⁴For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.

¹⁵If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

²Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

⁸I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

¹⁶Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.

⁵Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.

⁶The earth has yielded its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.

²⁷All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

²⁸For dominion belongs to the Lord and He rules over the nations.

³We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

¹¹Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

³³who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

¹Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

⁷you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”

²⁸Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

²⁹Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

⁶On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

²⁷And the Israelites inquired of the Lord. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,

¹²You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.

¹⁹You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

³⁹He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

²¹And the Lord went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

²²Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.

¹⁵On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

¹⁶It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

²As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

¹⁰But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.

⁸Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.

⁴¹when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

¹²Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.

¹³The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

¹⁰The Lord your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

¹³Return, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁷Why, O Lord, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

⁶⁰And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”