Numbers 10:1–10

The Silver Trumpets

10The Lord said to Moses: ²“Make two trumpets^h of hammered silver, and use them for calling the communityⁱ together and for having the camps set out.^{j 3}When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ⁴If only one is sounded, the leaders^k—the heads of the clans of Israel—are to assemble before you. ⁵When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out.^{l 6}At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out.^m The blast will be the signal for setting out. ⁷To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets,ⁿ but not with the signal for setting out.^o

⁸“The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to blow the trumpets. This is to be a lasting ordinance for you and the generations to come.^{p 9}When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you,^q sound a blast on the trumpets.^r Then you will be remembered^s by the Lord your God and rescued from your enemies.^{t 10}Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts^u—you are to sound the trumpets^v over your burnt offerings^w and fellowship offerings,^x and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.^y”