Numbers 10:8
What does Numbers 10:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 10:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout your generations.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout your generations.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an everlasting statute throughout your generations.
Context
v.7But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
v.8This passage
v.9And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 15:24
And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 16:6
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
- 2 Chronicles 13:12
And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
- Joshua 6:4
And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
- Numbers 31:6
And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
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