Numbers 10:3-4

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.

10:4 “But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you. ⁴ 

Numbers 17:4

17:4 You must place them ⁵  in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant ⁶  where I meet with you.

[10:3]  ¹ tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated as a temporal clause to the following similar verbal construction.

[10:3]  ² tn The verb תָקַע (taqa’) means “to strike, drive, blow a trumpet.”

[10:3]  ³ tn Heb “the assembly shall assemble themselves.”

[10:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “they shall assemble themselves.”

[17:4]  ⁷ tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נוּחַ (nuakh, “to rest”), and so “to set at rest, lay, place, put.” The form with the vav (ו) consecutive continues the instruction of the previous verse.

[17:4]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text simply reads “the covenant” or “the testimony.”