Numbers 10:4

4 But if they blow only one, the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will assemble to 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 yourself two silver trumpets; make them [of] hammered-work. {You will use them} for calling the community and for breaking the camp.

3 You will blow them, and all the community will assemble to the doorway of the tent of assembly.

4 But if they blow only one, the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will assemble to you.

5 [When] you will blow a blast, the camps that are camping on the east will set out;

6 [when] you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys.