Numbers 10:7

7 To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out.

Numbers 10:7 in Other Translations

7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

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

7 But when you call the people to an assembly, blow the trumpets with a different signal.

7 The bugle call that gathers the assembly is different from the signal to march.

7 When calling the assembly together, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

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 a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out.

6 At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out.

7 To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out.

8 “The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to blow the trumpets. This is to be a lasting ordinance for you and the generations to come.

9 When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from your enemies.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 4:5; Jeremiah 6:1; Ezekiel 33:3; Joel 2:1
• 2. 1 Corinthians 14:8