Text -- Numbers 10:5 (NET)

10:5 When you blow an alarm, then the camps that are located on the east side must begin to travel.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Num 10:5

¹ tn The word for an alarm is תְּרוּעָה (tÿru’ah). 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.

² tn Heb “the camps that are camping.”

³ 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.