Numbers 10:5

When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

In Context

4If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.

6At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.

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Cross References

Numbers 2:3Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

Numbers 10:14First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

Joel 2:1Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 10:2-11

The Moving of the Camp. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves… Read the whole commentary →

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