Numbers 10:5

What does Numbers 10:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 10:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

When a loud note is sounded, the tents placed on the east side are to go forward.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

`And ye have blown--a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with interruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie eastward shall set forward.

Context

v.4And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.

v.5This passage

v.6And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 10:6

    And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

  • Numbers 10:14

    And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

  • Numbers 2:3

    And those that encamp on the east side toward the sunrising shall be they of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

  • Isaiah 58:1

    Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

  • Joel 2:1

    Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

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