Numbers 10:3

10:3 When they blow them both, all the community must come to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 13:21

The Spies’ Activities

13:21 So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at the entrance of Hamath.

Numbers 16:50

16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.


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.”

sn Zin is on the southern edge of the land, but Rehob is far north, near Mount Hermon. The spies covered all the land.

tn The idiom uses the infinitive construct: “to enter Hamath,” meaning, “on the way that people go to Hamath.”