Week 51, Day 5: Trumpet Call
Today’s Reading: Numbers 10:1-36
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
It is revealed to us how Israel communicated quickly throughout the camp. Remember that you have a camp with at least 600,000 men in it. The camp would have been huge. Moses was instructed to make two silver trumpets. These trumpets were to be blownn a certain manner or time to instuct Israel to move out ffrom camp, for the leaders to assemble, or for an alarm. During their time traveling through the wilderness such forms of communication would be essential. There are things like this that I sometimes don’t wonder about how it happened until a verse like this. I assume that there would be different ways to make a trumpet blast so that these different commands could be conveyed. I associate the different sounds with the picture of a bugler from the days of the wild west. By blowing a certain “tune” he could sound the advance or the charge depending on the order. Here Moses could have the two trumpets blown to alert the camp or to summon the leaders to come to him for a meeting.
Question: How do you think you could tell the difference between when one trumpet was blown verse both trumpets being blown?
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