Numbers 10:7

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

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 sound the signal to move on, the tribes camped on the east side of the Tabernacle must break camp and move forward.

6 When you sound the signal a second time, the tribes camped on the south will follow. You must sound short blasts as the signal for moving on.

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

8 Only the priests, Aaron’s descendants, are allowed to blow the trumpets. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation.

9 “When you arrive in your own land and go to war against your enemies who attack you, sound the alarm with the trumpets. Then the LORD your God will remember you and rescue you from your enemies.