Numbers 10:7

To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

Majority Standard Bible

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

6When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.

8The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.

Read all of Numbers 10

Cross References

Joel 2:1Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Numbers 10:7