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Douay-Rheims Bible

Numbers 10:5

But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Priest;   Trumpet;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;   Trumpet;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Miracle;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alarm;   Music, Instrumental;   Priest;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Army;   Music;   Numbers, the Book of;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alarm;   Music, Instruments, Dancing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trump Trumpet ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Trumpets;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Army;   Camp and encamp;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Army;   Priest;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Music;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alarm;   Blow;   Congregation;   Forward;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Trumpet;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
King James Version
When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
Lexham English Bible
When you will blow a blast, the camps that are camping on the east will set out;
New Century Version
When you loudly blow the trumpets, the tribes camping on the east should move.
New English Translation
When you blow an alarm, then the camps that are located on the east side must begin to travel.
Amplified Bible
"When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east side [of the tabernacle] shall set out.
New American Standard Bible
"And when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if ye blow an alarme, then the campe of the that pitch on the East part, shal go forward.
Legacy Standard Bible
But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.
Contemporary English Version
Give a signal on a trumpet when it is time to break camp. The first blast will be the signal for the tribes camped on the east side, and the second blast will be the signal for those on the south.
Complete Jewish Bible
"When you sound an alarm, the camps to the east will commence traveling.
Darby Translation
And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie eastward shall set forward.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Short blasts on the trumpets will be the way to tell the people to move the camp. The first time you blow a short blast on the trumpets, the tribes camping on the east side of the Meeting Tent must begin to move.
English Standard Version
When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out.
George Lamsa Translation
When they blow the trumpet, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
Good News Translation
When short blasts are sounded, the tribes camped on the east will move out.
Christian Standard Bible®
“When you sound short blasts, the camps pitched on the east are to set out.
Literal Translation
And when you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall then pull up stakes .
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan ye trompe, then shal the hoostes that lye on the East syde, breake vp.
American Standard Version
And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
Bible in Basic English
When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if ye blowe an alarme, the hoastes that lye on the east partes shall go forwarde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
King James Version (1611)
When ye blow an alarme, then the campes that lie on the East parts, shall goe forward.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall sound an alarm, and the camps pitched eastward shall begin to move.
English Revised Version
And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
Berean Standard Bible
When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but if a lengere and departid trumpyng schal sowne, thei that ben at the eest coost schulen moue tentis first.
Young's Literal Translation
`And ye have blown -- a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed.
Update Bible Version
And when you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
Webster's Bible Translation
When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
World English Bible
When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
New King James Version
When you sound the advance, the camps that lie on the east side shall then begin their journey.
New Living Translation
"When you sound the signal to move on, the tribes camped on the east side of the Tabernacle must break camp and move forward.
New Life Bible
When you blow the horn to tell of danger, the people whose tents are on the east side will leave.
New Revised Standard
When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east side shall set out;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But when ye blow an alarm, then shall set forward the camps that are encamped eastwards;
Revised Standard Version
When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed. 3 And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant. 4 If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee. 5 But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward. 6 And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they who lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this manner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march. 7 But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound. 8 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations. 9 If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of your enemies. 10 If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

blow: Numbers 10:6, Numbers 10:7, Isaiah 58:1, Joel 2:1

camps: Numbers 2:3-9

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.
Genesis 10:9
And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.
Genesis 10:20
These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.
Genesis 10:25
And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother’s name Jectan.
Psalms 72:10
(71-10) The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:
Isaiah 24:15
Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 40:15
Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.
Isaiah 41:5
The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.
Isaiah 42:4
He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.
Isaiah 42:10
Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When ye blow an alarm,.... Making a broken, uneven, and quavering sound, which is called a "tara-tan-tara":

then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward; the camps of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, which lay to the east of the tabernacle, at the front of it; see Numbers 1:3; this was to be the token for their march, which was first of all; Numbers 10:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blow an alarm - i. e. along continuous peal. Compare Numbers 10:7, ye shall blow, but not sound an alarm: i. e. blow in short, sharp notes, not in a continuous peal. A third and a fourth alarm were probably blown as signals.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 10:5. When ye blow an alarm — תרועה teruah, probably meaning short, broken, sharp tones, terminating with long ones, blown with both the trumpets at once. From the similarity in the words some suppose that the Hebrew teruah was similar to the Roman taratantara, or sound of their clarion.


 
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