Numbers 10:1-9 ▼

1 The LORD said to Moses,

2 |Make two trumpets out of hammered silver. Use them to call the community together and as a signal to break camp.

3 When you blow both trumpets, the whole community will meet with you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

4 If only one trumpet blows, the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, will meet with you.

5 When they hear the trumpet fanfare, the tribes that are camped on the east side will break camp first.

6 When the trumpets sound a second fanfare, the tribes that are camped on the south will break camp. The fanfare is the signal to break camp.

7 But when you gather the assembly, the trumpets will blow without sounding a fanfare.

8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow the trumpets. This will be a permanent law for you and your descendants.

9 |When you go to war in your own country against an enemy who is oppressing you, the trumpets will sound a fanfare. Then the LORD your God will remember you and rescue you from your enemies.