Numbers 10:8

8 and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.

Numbers 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 10:8

And the sons of Aaron the priests shall blow with the
trumpets
Eleazar and Ithamar, the one with the one and the other with the other, there being at first but two, as there were but two priests; but in Solomon's time there were an hundred twenty priests, and as many trumpets, ( 2 Chronicles 5:12 ) ; hence Maimonides says ^F12, there were never fewer than two trumpets, nor more than an hundred twenty;

and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your
generations:
for they were not only for present use, for the journeying of the camps in the wilderness, but for calling together the assembly in later times, as well as for other uses next mentioned; which would obtain in future ages till the coming of Christ, and even under the Gospel dispensation the mystical use of them continues, the preaching of the everlasting Gospel.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Hilchot Cele Hamikdash, c. 3. sect. 4.

Numbers 10:8 In-Context

6 `And ye have blown -- a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys.

7 `And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout;

8 and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.

9 `And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies.

10 `And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, [am] your God.'