The Wilderness Years

And in the day of the raising up of the tabernacle hath the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and in the evening there is on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire till morning;

so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night.

And according to the going up of the cloud from off the tent and afterwards do the sons of Israel journey; and in the place where the cloud doth tabernacle, there do the sons of Israel encamp;

by the command of Jehovah the sons of Israel journey, and by the command of Jehovah they encamp; all the days that the cloud doth tabernacle over the tabernacle they encamp.

And in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle many days, then have the sons of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journey not,

and so when the cloud is a number of days over the tabernacle; by the command of Jehovah they encamp, and by the command of Jehovah they journey.

And so when the cloud is from evening till morning, when the cloud hath gone up in the morning, then they have journeyed; whether by day or by night, when the cloud hath gone up, then they have journeyed.

Whether two days, or a month, or days, in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle, to tabernacle over it, the sons of Israel encamp, and journey not; and in its being lifted up they journey;

by the command of Jehovah they encamp, and by the command of Jehovah they journey; the charge of Jehovah they have kept, by the command of Jehovah in the hand of Moses.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Make to thee two trumpets of silver; beaten work thou dost make them, and they have been to thee for the convocation of the company, and for the journeying of the camps;

and they have blown with them, and all the company have met together unto thee, unto the opening of the tent of meeting.

And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee;

`And ye have blown--a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed.

`And ye have blown--a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys.

`And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout;

and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.

`And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies.

`And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, am your God.'

And it cometh to pass--in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month--the cloud hath gone up from off the tabernacle of the testimony,

and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran;

and they journey at first, by the command of Jehovah, in the hand of Moses.

And the standard of the camp of the sons of Judah journeyeth in the first place , by their hosts, and over its host is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar is Nathaneel son of Zuar.

And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon;