Numbers 10:3-4

10:3 When they blow them both, all the community must come 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.


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

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

tn Heb “the assembly shall assemble themselves.”

tn Heb “they shall assemble themselves.”