Numbers 10:5

When you blow with a full note, (or alarm,) the host that encampeth eastward shall go forward,

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And if they blow with but one, the chiefs, the heads of thousands of Israel, shall gather together to thee.

6and when you blow with the second alarm, the hosts that encamp southward shall go on; an alarm shall they blow for their journeys.

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Cross References

Numbers 2:3Over against the tabernacle of ordinance shall they encamp round about. The standard of the camp of Jehudah shall they pitch, according to their hosts, eastward toward the sunrise: and the chief of the sons of Jehudah is Nachshon bar Aminadab.

Numbers 10:14In the first place the standard of the camp of the Beni Jehudah went forward by their hosts; and over the host was Nachshon bar Aminadab.

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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