Imamat 25:9

25:9 You must sound loud horn blasts ¹  – in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement – you must sound the horn in your entire land.

Bilangan 10:9-10

10:9 If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes ²  you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved ³  from your enemies.

10:10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as ⁴  on your appointed festivals or ⁵  at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may ⁶  become ⁷  a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”

[25:9]  ¹ sn On the “loud horn blasts” see the note on Lev 23:24, but unlike the language there, the Hebrew term for “horn” (שׁוֹפָר, shofar) actually appears here in this verse (twice).

[10:9]  ² tn Both the “adversary” and “opposes” come from the same root: צָרַר (tsarar), “to hem in, oppress, harass,” or basically, “be an adversary.”

[10:9]  ³ tn The Niphal perfect in this passage has the passive nuance and not a reflexive idea – the Israelites would be spared because God remembered them.

[10:10]  ⁴ tn The conjunction may be taken as explicative or epexegetical, and so rendered “namely; even; that is,” or it may be taken as emphatic conjunction, and translated “especially.”

[10:10]  ⁵ tn The vav (ו) is taken here in its alternative use and translated “or.”

[10:10]  ⁶ tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. After the instruction imperfects, this form could be given the same nuance, or more likely, subordinated as a purpose or result clause.

[10:10]  ⁷ tn The verb “to be” (הָיָה, hayah) has the meaning “to become” when followed by the preposition lamed (ל).