Numbers 10:4

4 When one is blown, the chiefs, the leaders of Israel's divisions, will meet you.

Numbers 10:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 10:4

And if they blow [but] with one [trumpet]
With only one of them, or but once, with one sounding, and that an even one as before:

then the princes, [which are] the heads of the thousands of Israel,
shall gather themselves unto thee:
and they only or alone, as Aben Ezra: by this token, or by this difference of blowing both trumpets, or only one, it was, easily known when the whole congregation or when the princes only were to meet Moses at the same place, the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and all are to attend divine service, and the ministry of the word, even the whole church of God, and all the members of it, high and low, rich and poor, princes and people.

Numbers 10:4 In-Context

2 Make two silver trumpets and make them from hammered metalwork. Use them for summoning the community and for breaking camp.

3 When both are blown, the entire community will meet you at the entrance of the meeting tent.

4 When one is blown, the chiefs, the leaders of Israel's divisions, will meet you.

5 When you blow a series of short blasts, the camp on the east side will march.

6 And when you blow a second series of short blasts, the camp on the south side will march. You will blow a series of short blasts to announce their march.