Numbers 10:1–9

The Silver Trumpets

10The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for ^xsummoning the congregation and for breaking camp. ³And when ^yboth are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ⁴But if they blow only one, then ^zthe chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. ⁵When you blow an alarm, ^athe camps that are on the east side shall set out. ⁶And when you blow an alarm the second time, ^bthe camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out. ⁷But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ^cyou shall blow a long blast, but you shall not ^dsound an alarm. ^8eAnd the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. ⁹And ^fwhen you go to war in your land against the adversary who ^goppresses you, then you shall ^dsound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be ^hremembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.