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Numbers 10:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. "
Numbers 10:12
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10 “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.
12 The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
13 They first went forward according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.
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Numbers 10:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Numbers 10:2
"“Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps."
Numbers 10:3
"When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting."
Numbers 10:4
"If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you."
Numbers 10:5
"When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward."
Numbers 10:6
"When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys."
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