Numbers 10:7

But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

8And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.

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Cross References

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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