Numbers 10:1-10

Legacy Standard Bible

The Silver Trumpets

10 Yahweh spoke further to Moses, saying, ² “Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for ^(A)summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out. ^3 (B)So both will be blown, and all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ⁴ Yet if only one is blown, then the ^(C)leaders, the heads of the ^[a]divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you. ⁵ But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched ^(D)on the east side shall set out. ⁶ Then you will blow an alarm the second time, and the camps that are pitched on ^(E)the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out. ⁷ When convening the assembly, however, you shall blow without ^(F)sounding an alarm. ^8 (G)The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and ^[b]this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations. ⁹ Now when you go to war in your land against the adversary who ^(H)attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be ^(I)remembered before Yahweh your God and be saved from your enemies. ¹⁰ Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed ^[c]feasts, and on the first days of your months, ^(J)you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a remembrance of you before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”