Numbers 10:1-8

1 locutus est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

2 fac tibi duas tubas argenteas ductiles quibus convocare possis multitudinem quando movenda sunt castra

3 cumque increpueris tubis congregabitur ad te omnis turba ad ostium foederis tabernaculi

4 si semel clangueris venient ad te principes et capita multitudinis Israhel

5 sin autem prolixior atque concisus clangor increpuerit movebunt castra primi qui sunt ad orientalem plagam

6 in secundo autem sonitu et pari ululatu tubae levabunt tentoria qui habitant ad meridiem et iuxta hunc modum reliqui facient ululantibus tubis in profectione

7 quando autem congregandus est populus simplex tubarum clangor erit et non concise ululabunt

8 filii Aaron sacerdotes clangent tubis eritque hoc legitimum sempiternum in generationibus vestris

Numbers 10:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10

This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Nu 10:1-10; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Nu 10:11-28; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Nu 10:29-32; and the chapter is closed with the prayer of Moses at the setting forward of the ark, and the resting of it, Nu 10:33-36.