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

³ Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

⁴ The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.

⁵ And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.

⁶ The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred.

⁷ After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief.

⁸ The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred.

⁹ The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.

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.

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.

¹ Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

¹ Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;