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On the sixtieth day, Numbers 10 recounts the departure of the people of Israel from Mount Sinai, guided by the cloud of God's presence. In Deuteronomy 9, Moses recalls the people's stubbornness and God's forgiveness after the golden calf incident. Psalm 10 expresses anguish at the seeming impunity of the wicked and reaffirms trust in divine justice. A day that reminds us that, even amidst human failures and human failings, God remains just and compassionate.

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2. Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.

3. And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant.

4. If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee.

5. But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.

6. And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march.

7. But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound.

8. And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.

9. If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of your enemies.

10. If at any time you shall have a banquet, end on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

11. The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant.

12. And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

13. And the first went forward according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

14. The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

15. In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Nathanael the son of Suar.

16. In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.

17. And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.

18. And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks, whose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur.

19. And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

20. And in the tribe of Cad, the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel.

21. Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they same to the place of setting it up.

22. The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.

23. And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

24. And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon.

25. The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their troops, in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

26. And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.

27. And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the prince was Ahira the son of Enan.

28. This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of Israel by their troops, when they set forward.

29. And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good : for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel.

30. But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born.

31. And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.

32. And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best of the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us.

33. So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three days providing a place for the camp.

34. The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they marched.

35. And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face.

36. And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the multitude of the host of Israel.

1. Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky,

2. A People great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.

3. Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.

4. Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness.

5. For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6. Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked people.

7. Remember, and forget not how then provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.

8. For in Horeb also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,

9. When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.

10. And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and containing all the words that he spoke to you in the mount from the midst of the Are, when the people were assembled together.

11. And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,

12. And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol.

13. And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked:

14. Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

15. And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,

16. And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:

17. I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.

18. And I fell down before the Lord se before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:

19. For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this time also.

20. And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.

21. And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took, and burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as small as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the mountain.

22. At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the graves of lust you provoked the Lord:

23. And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his voice:

24. But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.

25. And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened:

26. And praying, I said: 0 Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

27. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the stubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:

28. Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he promised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he might kill them in the wilderness,

29. Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out by thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm.

1. Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.

2. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.

3. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.

4. When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.

5. For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

6. Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished: thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

7. The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise.

8. but the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:

9. and he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.

10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

11. And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

12. Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:

13. For requiring their blood he hath remembered the: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

14. Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.

15. Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

16. I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they have prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

17. The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

18. The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

19. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

20. Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.

21. Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.