Numbers 10:7

7 When you want to gather the people, blow the trumpets, but don't blow them as loudly.

Numbers 10:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 10:7

But when the congregation is to be gathered together
At the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and not to move in separate camps or bodies one after another:

you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm;
blow with an even and uninterrupted sound, and not with a broken and quavering one; by which the congregation and camps were distinguished from one another, the same certain sound being given to each constantly, whereby they knew which were called to motion: see ( 1 Corinthians 14:8 ) ; according to Ben Gersom blowing was a voice drawn out, and joined or continued; an alarm, a voice not joined, but broken.

Numbers 10:7 In-Context

5 When you loudly blow the trumpets, the tribes camping on the east should move.

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

7 When you want to gather the people, blow the trumpets, but don't blow them as loudly.

8 "Aaron's sons, the priests, should blow the trumpets. This is a law for you and your descendants from now on.

9 When you are fighting an enemy who attacks you in your own land, blow the trumpets loudly. The Lord your God will take notice of you and will save you from your enemies.