Midras Bilangan 10:11: Ein Yaakov (Glick Edition) & Sefer HaYashar (midrash)

Our Rabbis taught: "And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said. Rise up Lord, etc. (Num. 10, 35). At the beginning of this chapter and at its close, the Holy One, praised be He! made signs to signify (Fol. ll6a) that this is not the proper place for the two passages. Rabbi says: 'This is not the reason for it, but it signifies that these two passages form separate books within themselves.' " In accordance with whose teaching is that which R. Samuel b. Nachmeini spoke in the name of R. Jochanan "She hath hewn out her seven pillars (Pr. 9, 1), i.e., these are the seven books of which the Torah is composed [and not five as we count]"? This is in accordance with the opinion of Rabbi [who says that the above two passages from two books in themselves]. Who is the Tana (sage) that differs with Rabbi? It is Rabban Simon b. Gamaliel, for we are taught that Rabban Simon b. Gamaliel says: "The chapter of these two passages will in the future, be removed and put in the proper place." Why then, was it inserted here? In order to make a separation between the first retribution and the second retribution. What was the second retribution? And it came to pass that as the people complained, etc. (Num. 11, 1). And what was the first retribution? And they set forward from the mount of the Lord, etc. (Ib. 10, 33). And R. Chama b. Chanina [in explaining it] said: "This is intended to mean 'that they departed from the ways of the Lord.'" Where is the proper place for the two passages? R. Ashi said: "In the chapter of the Standards (Num. 10. 11-20)."

And in the twelfth month, on the twenty-third day of the month Moses took Aaron and his ‎sons, and he dressed them in the official garments, and he anointed them, and he did unto ‎them according to the commandment of the Lord, and Moses brought up all the offerings, as ‎the Lord had commanded him on that day. And afterwards Moses took Aaron and his sons, ‎and he said unto them: Keep within the doors of the tabernacle for seven days for thus am I ‎commanded; and they did all as the Lord had commanded through Moses, and they remained ‎within the doors of the tabernacle for seven days. And on the eighth day, the first day of the ‎first month of the second year since the Israelites’ departure from Egypt, Moses erected the ‎tabernacle and all the furniture, and he did all as the Lord had commanded unto him. Then ‎called Moses, Aaron, and his sons, and they brought up the burnt offering and the sin offering ‎for themselves and the people, as the Lord had commanded unto Moses. And on that day, ‎Nadab and Abihu the two sons of Aaron offered strange fire before the Lord, which he ‎commanded them not, and there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them, and they ‎died before the Lord on that day. And the offerings, which each man brought in his day, were: ‎One silver charger, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of ‎seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour, mingled with ‎oil for a meat offering. One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense. One young bullock, ‎one ram, one lamb of the first year. One kid of the goats for a sin offering. And for a sacrifice of ‎peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats and five lambs of the first year. Thus did ‎the princes of Israel bring their offerings day after day, each man on his day; and after this ‎Moses commanded the children of Israel to celebrate the Passover. And the children of Israel ‎observed the Passover in its season, on the fourteenth day of the month; as the Lord had ‎commanded unto Moses so did the children of Israel. And in the second month, on the first ‎day of the month, the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying: Number the heads of all the males ‎among the children of Israel from twenty years and upwards, thou and Aaron thy brother and ‎the twelve princes of Israel; and Moses did so, and Aaron came with the twelve princes of ‎Israel, and they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai, and the numbers of ‎the children of Israel, according to the houses of their fathers from twenty years and upwards ‎were six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. But the children of Levi were ‎not numbered amongst their brethren the children of Israel. And the number of all the first ‎born male children in Israel from one month and upwards was twenty-two thousand and two ‎hundred and seventy three, and the number of the children of Levi, from one month and ‎upwards, was twenty-two thousand. And Moses stationed the priests and Levites, every man ‎to his duties to serve in the sanctuary of the tabernacle, as the Lord had commanded unto ‎Moses.