¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

² Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents.

³ When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.

⁴ If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.

⁵ When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.

⁶ At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.

⁷ But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly.

⁸ The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation.

⁹ And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you.

¹⁰ And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.

¹¹ Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.

¹² And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.

¹³ They went forward for the first time on their journey as the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses.

¹⁴ First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

¹⁵ And at the head of the army of the children of Issachar was Nethanel, the son of Zuar.

¹⁶ And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon.

¹⁷ Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward.

¹⁸ Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

¹⁹ And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.

²⁰ At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel.

²¹ Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

²² Then the flag of the children of Ephraim went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elishama, the son of Ammihud.

²³ At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.

²⁴ At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni.

²⁵ And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

²⁶ At the head of the army of the children of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran.

²⁷ And at the head of the army of the children of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Enan.

²⁸ This was the order in which the children of Israel were journeying by armies; so they went forward.

²⁹ Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

³⁰ But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

³¹ And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

³² And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

³³ So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;

³⁴ And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents.

³⁵ And when the ark went forward Moses said, Come up, O Lord, and let the armies of those who are against you be broken, and let your haters go in flight before you.

³⁶ And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and give a blessing to the families of Israel.

¹ Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?

² And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.

³ Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.

⁴ And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.

⁵ And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

⁶ But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

⁷ And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

⁸ Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

⁹ After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.

¹⁰ And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.

¹¹ And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)

¹² And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.

¹³ And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife.

¹⁴ Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?

¹⁵ And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now Give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.

¹⁶ Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;

¹⁷ And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it under the curse; and he gave the town the name of Hormah.

¹⁸ Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.

¹⁹ And the Lord was with Judah; and he took the hill-country for his heritage; but he was unable to make the people of the valley go out, for they had war-carriages of iron.

²⁰ And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak, driving them out from there.

²¹ And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem.

²² And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them.

²³ So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)

²⁴ And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town, and said to him, If you will make clear to us the way into the town, we will be kind to you.

²⁵ So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man and all his family get away safe.

²⁶ And he went into the land of the Hittites, building a town there and naming it Luz: which is its name to this day.

²⁷ And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, or of Taanach and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Ibleam and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, driving them out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

²⁸ And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.

²⁹ And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out; but the Canaanites went on living in Gezer among them.

³⁰ Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work.

³¹ And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out;

³² But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them out.

³³ Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work.

³⁴ And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;

³⁵ For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.

³⁶ And the limit of the Edomites went from the slope of Akrabbim from Sela and up.