Numbers 10:1-6

Two Silver Trumpets

1 The Lord spoke to Moses:

2 "Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community^[a] and have the camps set out.

3 When both are sounded in long blasts, the entire community is to gather before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

4 However, if one is sounded, only the leaders, the heads of Israel's clans,^[b] are to gather before you.

5 "When you sound short blasts, the camps pitched on the east^[c] are to set out.

6 When you sound short blasts a second time, the camps pitched on the south^[d] are to set out. Short blasts are to be sounded for them to set out.

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Numbers 10:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10

This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Nu 10:1-10; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Nu 10:11-28; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Nu 10:29-32; and the chapter is closed with the prayer of Moses at the setting forward of the ark, and the resting of it, Nu 10:33-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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[a]. Jl 2:15-16
[b]. Nm 1:5-16
[c]. Nm 2:3-9; 10:14-16
[d]. Nm 2:10-16; 10:18-20

Numbers 10:1-6

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Two Silver Trumpets

Numbers 10:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10

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