Numbers 10:7

Numbers Old Testament

WEB

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

KJV

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

Commentary

Commentary

But when the congregation is to be gathered together,.... At the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and not to mov e in separate camps or bodies one after another: you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm; blow with an even and uninterrupted sound, and not with a broken and quavering one; by which the congregation and camps were distinguished from one another, the same certain sound being given to each constantly, whereby they knew which were called to motion: see Co1 14:8 ; according to Ben Gersom blowing was a voice drawn out, and joined or continued; an alarm, a voice not joined, but broken.