Numbers 10:5

10:5 When you blow an alarm, ¹  then the camps that are located ²  on the east side must begin to travel. ³ 

Numbers 28:18

28:18 And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work ⁴  on it.

Numbers 28:25

28:25 On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

Numbers 29:17

29:17 “‘On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

[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.

[10:5]  ² tn Heb “the camps that are camping.”

[10:5]  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.

[28:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “any work [of] service”; this means any occupational work, that is, the ordinary service.