Numbers 10:1-10

The Use of the Silver Trumpets

This section, like the last, is connected with the breaking up of the camp, one of the uses of the silver trumpets being to give the signal for the departure.

2. Of a whole piece] RV ’of beaten work.’

9. If ye go to war] see e.g. Numbers 31:6; 2 Chronicles 5:12.

10. See Leviticus 23:24; 2 Chronicles 5:12; Ezra 3:10.