Numbers 10:1-8

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 Make two silver trumpets; you shall make them of hammered work; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation, and for breaking camp.

3 When both are blown, the whole congregation shall assemble before you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

4 But if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall assemble before you.

5 When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east side shall set out;

6 when you blow a second alarm, the camps on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

7 But when the assembly is to be gathered, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; this shall be a perpetual institution for you throughout your generations.

Numbers 10:1-8 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.