Numbers 10:1-6

1 The Lord said to Moses,

2 "Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them to call the people together and to march out of camp.

3 When both trumpets are blown, the people should gather before you at the entrance to the Meeting Tent.

4 If you blow only one trumpet, the leaders, the heads of the family groups of Israel, should meet before you.

5 When you loudly blow the trumpets, the tribes camping on the east should move.

6 When you loudly blow them again, the tribes camping on the south should move; the loud sound will tell them to move.

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.