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Numbers 10:3-5
New English Translation
Numbers 10:3-5
New English Translation
3 When[a] they blow[b] them both, all the community must come[c] to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
4 “But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you.[d] 5 When you blow an alarm,[e] then the camps that are located[f] on the east side must begin to travel.[g]
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- Numbers 10:3 tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated as a temporal clause to the following similar verbal construction.
- Numbers 10:3 tn The verb תָקַע (taqaʿ) means “to strike, drive, blow a trumpet.”
- Numbers 10:3 tn Heb “the assembly shall assemble themselves.”
- Numbers 10:4 tn Heb “they shall assemble themselves.”
- Numbers 10:5 tn The word for an alarm is תְּרוּעָה (teruʿah). The root verb of this word means “to give a blast on the trumpet.” It may also on occasion mean “give a shout” in battle (Josh 6:10). In this passage it must refer to the sound of the trumpet.
- Numbers 10:5 tn Heb “the camps that are camping.”
- Numbers 10:5 tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive functions as the equivalent of the imperfect tense. Here the emphasis is on the start of the journey.
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