Numbers 10:7

7 But when summoning the assembly, you will blow, but you will not signal with a loud noise.

Numbers 10:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 10:7

But when the congregation is to be gathered together
At the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and not to move in separate camps or bodies one after another:

you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm;
blow with an even and uninterrupted sound, and not with a broken and quavering one; by which the congregation and camps were distinguished from one another, the same certain sound being given to each constantly, whereby they knew which were called to motion: see ( 1 Corinthians 14:8 ) ; according to Ben Gersom blowing was a voice drawn out, and joined or continued; an alarm, a voice not joined, but broken.

Numbers 10:7 In-Context

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.

7 But when summoning the assembly, you will blow, but you will not signal with a loud noise.

8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations.

9 If you go [to] war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered {before} Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies.