Numbers 10 — Overview

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This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Nu 10:1; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Nu 10:11; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Nu 10:29; and the chapter is closed with the prayer of Moses at the setting forward of the ark, and the resting of it, Nu 10:33.

Ver. 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses,....

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