Numbers 1:52

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Numbers 1:50–54 · Berean Standard Bible

50 Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.

51 Whenever 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.

52 The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.

53 But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

54 Thus the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Numbers 2:2

“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.

Numbers 2:34

So 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.

Numbers 10:1

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 10:2

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.

Numbers 10:3

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

Numbers 10:4

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

Numbers 10:5

When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.

Numbers 10:6

When 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.

Numbers 10:7

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

Numbers 10:8

The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.

Numbers 10:9

When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

Numbers 10:10

And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

Numbers 10:11

On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,

Numbers 10:12

and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 10:13

They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.

Numbers 10:14

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

Numbers 10:15

Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe of Issachar,

Numbers 10:16

and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of Zebulun.

Numbers 10:17

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

Numbers 10:18

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

Numbers 10:19

Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon,

Numbers 10:20

and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.

Numbers 10:21

Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

Numbers 10:22

Next, the divisions of the camp of Ephraim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command.

Numbers 10:23

Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,

Numbers 10:24

and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.

Numbers 10:25

Finally, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for all units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.

Numbers 10:26

Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher,

Numbers 10:27

and Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali.

Numbers 10:28

This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.

Numbers 10:29

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

Numbers 10:30

“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

Numbers 10:31

“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

Numbers 10:32

If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

Numbers 10:33

So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

Numbers 10:34

And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

Numbers 10:35

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

Numbers 10:36

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

Numbers 24:2

When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,