Numbers 10:3

10:3 When ¹  they blow ²  them both, all the community must come ³  to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 10:8

10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets; and they will be to you for an eternal ordinance throughout your generations.

¹ tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated as a temporal clause to the following similar verbal construction.

² tn The verb תָקַע (taqa’) means “to strike, drive, blow a trumpet.”

³ tn Heb “the assembly shall assemble themselves.”