Numbers 10:6

Douay-Rheims Bible

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.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
When you 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.

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
when you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys.

New Century Version
When you loudly blow them again, the tribes camping on the south should move; the loud sound will tell them to move.

New English Translation
And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel. An alarm must be sounded for their journeys.

Amplified Bible
"When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps on the south side [of the tabernacle] shall set out. They shall blow an alarm whenever they are to move out [on their journeys].

New American Standard Bible
"Then when you sound an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be sounded for them to break camp.

Geneva Bible (1587)
If ye blowe an alarme the second time, then the hoste of them that lie on the Southside shal march: for they shal blowe an alarme when they remoue.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then you will blow an alarm the second time, and the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.

Complete Jewish Bible
When you sound a second alarm, the camps to the south will set out; they will sound alarms to announce when to travel.

Darby Translation
And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie southward shall set forward; they shall blow an alarm on their setting forward.

Easy-to-Read Version
The second time you blow a short blast on the trumpets, the tribes camping on the south side of the Meeting Tent will begin to move.

English Standard Version
And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

George Lamsa Translation
And when they blow with the second trumpet, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey; they shall blow a trumpet for their journeys.

Good News Translation
When short blasts are sounded a second time, the tribes on the south will move out. So short blasts are to be sounded to break camp,

Christian Standard Bible®
When you sound short blasts a second time, the camps pitched on the south are to set out. Short blasts are to be sounded for them to set out.

Literal Translation
And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall pull up stakes ; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan ye trompe the seconde tyme, the hoostes that lye on the South syde, shal breake vp. For ye shall trompe, whan they shal take their iourneys.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if ye blowe the alarme the second tyme, the hoast that lyeth on the south side shall take their iourney: for they shall blowe an alarme when they take their iourneyes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall set forward; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

King James Version (1611)
When you blow an alarme the second time, then the campes that lye on the Southside, shall take their iourney: they shall blow an alarme for their iourneys.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall sound a second alarm, and the camps pitched southward shall move; and ye shall sound a third alarm, and the camps pitched westward shall move forward; and ye shall sound a fourth alarm, and they that encamp toward the north shall move forward: they shall sound an alarm at their departure.

English Revised Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe in the secounde sown and lijk noise of the trumpe thei that dwellen at the south schulen reise tentis; and bi this maner othere men schulen do, whanne the trumpis schulen sowne in to goyng forth.

Young's Literal Translation
`And ye have blown -- a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys.

Update Bible Version
And when you 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
When you 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.

New King James Version
When you sound the advance the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall begin their journey; they shall sound the call for them to begin their journeys.

New Living Translation
When you sound the signal a second time, the tribes camped on the south will follow. You must sound short blasts as the signal for moving on.

New Life Bible
When you blow the horn to tell of danger a second time, the people whose tents are on the south side will leave. A horn telling of danger will be blown when they are to move on.

New Revised Standard
when you blow a second alarm, the camps on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and when ye blow a second alarm, then shall set forward the camps that are encamped southwards, - an alarm, shall they blow for setting them forward,

Revised Standard Version
And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to 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

ye blow: A single alarm was a signal for the eastward division to march; two such alarms the signal for the south; and probably three for the west, and four for the North. There appears therefore, a deficiency in the Hebrew Text, which is thus supplied by the LXX:

ךבי ףבכניויפו ףחלבףיבם פסיפחם, ךבי ומבסןץףים בי נבסולגןכבי בי נבסולגבככןץףבי נבסב טבכבףףבם. ךבי ףבכניויפו ףחלבףיבם פופבספחם, ךבי ומבסןץףים בי נבסולגןכבי בי נבסולגבככןץףבי נסןע גןלסבם.

And when ye blow a third alarm or signal, the camps on the west shall march; and when ye blow a fourth alarm, the camps on the north shall march." This addition, however, is not acknowledged by the Samaritan, nor any other version than the Coptic, nor any manuscript yet collated.

the camps: Numbers 2:10-16

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:5 - blow Numbers 33:2 - journeys Deuteronomy 10:6 - took

Cross-References

Genesis 9:22
Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

Genesis 10:8
Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

Genesis 10:16
And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.

1 Chronicles 4:40
And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had dwelt before.

Psalms 78:51
(77-51) And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

Psalms 105:23
(104-23) And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

Psalms 105:27
(104-27) He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.

Psalms 106:22
(105-22) Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Jeremiah 46:9
Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield, and the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When ye blow an alarm the second time,.... Another "tara-tan-tara":

then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey; the camps of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad, which were encamped on the south side of the tabernacle, Numbers 2:10; and, as Josephus k says, at the third sounding of the alarm, that part of the camp which lay to the west moved, which were the camps of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin, Numbers 2:18; and at the fourth sounding, as he says, those which were at the north, the camps of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali, Numbers 2:25; which, though not expressed in the Hebrew text, are added in the Septuagint version, as they are to be understood:

they shall blow an alarm for their journeys; for the journeys of the said camps, as a signal or token when they should begin to march.

k Ut supra. (Antiq. l. 3. c. 12. sect. 6.)

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 10:6. 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 camps, or grand divisions of this great army, always lay, as we have already seen, to the east, south, west, and north: and here the east and south camps alone are mentioned; the first containing Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; the second, Reuben, Simeon, and Gad. The west and north divisions are not named, and yet we are sure they marched in consequence of express orders or signals, as well as the other two. There appears therefore a deficiency here in the Hebrew text, which is thus supplied by the Septuagint: Και σαλπιειτε σημασιαν τριτην, και εξαρουσιν αἱ παρεμβολαι αἱ παρεμβαλλουσαι παρα θαλασσαν· και σαλπιειτε σημασιαν τεταρτην, και εξαρουσιν αἱ παρεμβολαι αἱ παρεμβαλλουσαι προς βορῥαν. "And when ye blow a third alarm or signal, the camps on the west shall march: and when ye blow a fourth alarm or signal, the camps on the north shall march." This addition, however, is not acknowledged by the Samaritan, nor by any of the other versions but the Coptic. Nor are there any various readings in the collections of Kennicott and De Rossi, which countenance the addition in the above versions. Houbigant thinks this addition so evidently necessary, that he has inserted the Latin in his text, and in a note supplied the Hebrew words, and thinks that these words were originally in the Hebrew text, but happened to be omitted in consequence of so many similar words occurring so often in the same verse, which might dazzle and deceive the eye of a transcriber.