Tribes Depart Sinai

A search of Numbers 10:11-36:

"And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai: and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses" (Numbers 10:11-13).

The tribes departed the Wilderness of Sinai in a standard led by their respective hosts (Numbers 10:14-28). Following standard between the tribes of Zebulun and Reuben, "...the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle" (Numbers 10:17). The Kohathites followed between the tribes of Gad and Ephraim with the sanctuary (Numbers 10:21).

"And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee" (Numbers 10:29-32).

"And they departed from the mount of the Lord three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp" (Numbers 10:33,34).

"And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee. And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, unto the many thousand of Israel" (Numbers 10:35,36).