Numbers 10:5

But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee.

6And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march.

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Cross References

Numbers 2:3On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: and the prince of his sons shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

Numbers 10:14The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

Joel 2:1Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand,

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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