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Numbers 10:6

in Numbers 10

When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

KJV

When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

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This verse in Numbers 10

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

One alarm was the recognized signal for the eastern division of the camp (the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun) to march; two alarms gave the signal for the southern to move; and, though it is not in our present Hebrew text, the Septuagint has, that on three alarms being sounded, those on the west; while on four blasts, those on the north decamped.

This site's exposition

When ye blow an alarm

on Numbers 10:5-7

The alarm is a broken quavering blast and the ordinary call is a long even note, and verse 7 states the difference outright, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. One alarm moves the east standard and a second alarm moves the south. The Hebrew text stops at two, while the Septuagint carries signals for the west and the north as well, which is why Barnes and Clarke reckon a third and a fourth alarm were blown.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

When ye blow an alarm the second time,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And some think that this was intended to sanctify their marches, for thus were proclaimed by the priests, who were God's mouth to the people, not only the divine orders given them to move, but the divine blessing upon them in all their motions. He that hath ears, let him hear that God is with them of a truth.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

When ye blow an alarm the second time - A single alarm, as above stated, was a signal for the eastward division to march; two such alarms, the signal for the south division; and probably three for the west division, and four for the north. It is more likely that this was the case, than that a single alarm served for each, with a small interval between them.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּתְקַעְתֶּ֤םand you will give a blast

    uteka'temH8628 →69 times

  • תְּרוּעָה֙an alarm

    teruahH8643 →36 times

  • שֵׁנִ֔יתsecond

    shenitH8145 →156 times

  • וְנָֽסְעוּ֙and they will set out

    venaseuH5265 →146 times

  • הַֽמַּחֲנ֔וֹתthe camps

    hamachanotH4264 →215 times

  • הַחֹנִ֖יםwhich encamp

    hachonimH2583 →143 times

  • תֵּימָ֑נָהsouth -ward

    teimanahH8486 →23 times

  • תְּרוּעָ֥הan alarm

    teruahH8643 →36 times

  • יִתְקְע֖וּthey will give a blast

    yitkeuH8628 →69 times

  • לְמַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃for settings out their

    lemaseihemH4550 →12 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

4 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 10:18

    Then the divisions of the camp of Reuben set out under their standard, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 2:10–16

      On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard:

    • Numbers 1:5

      These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

    • Numbers 7:35

      and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.

    • Numbers 26:5–18

      Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. These were the descendants of Reuben: The Hanochite clan from Hanoch, the Palluite clan from Pallu,

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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