Numbers 10:1-10

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Silver Trumpets

10 The Lord told Moses ² to make two trumpets of hammered silver and to use them in this way:

You will use them to summon the community and to have the camp set out.

³ When they blow both trumpets, the entire community will gather to you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ⁴ If they blow just one trumpet, then the tribal chiefs, the heads of the Israelite clans, will gather to you.

⁵ When you blow the signal on the trumpets, the camps that are on the east side will set out. ⁶ When you blow the signal a second time, the camps that are on the south side will set out. This will be the signal to set out.

⁷ When the community is to gather, you will blow the trumpets, but you will not sound the signal for setting out.

⁸ Aaron’s sons, the priests, will blow the trumpets. This will be a permanent regulation for you and for your descendants. ⁹ When you go out into battle in your own land against an adversary who attacks you, you will sound the signal with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

¹⁰ Also at the times when you rejoice, at your appointed festivals and at the New Moon, you will blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. They will serve as a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.