Numbers 10:10
וּבְיוֹם שִׂמְחַתְכֶם וּֽבְמוֹעֲדֵיכֶם וּבְרָאשֵׁי חָדְשֵׁיכֶם וּתְקַעְתֶּם בַּחֲצֹֽצְרֹת עַל עֹלֹתֵיכֶם וְעַל זִבְחֵי שַׁלְמֵיכֶם וְהָיוּ לָכֶם לְזִכָּרוֹן לִפְנֵי אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם אֲנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ פ
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וּבְי֨וֹם שִׂמְחַתְכֶ֥ם וּֽבְמוֹעֲדֵיכֶם֮ וּבְרָאשֵׁ֣י חָדְשֵׁיכֶם֒ וּתְקַעְתֶּ֣ם בַּחֲצֹֽצְרֹ֗ת עַ֚ל עֹלֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וְעַ֖ל זִבְחֵ֣י שַׁלְמֵיכֶ֑ם וְהָי֨וּ לָכֶ֤ם לְזִכָּרוֹן֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ פ
καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς εὐφροσύνης ὑμῶν καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἑορταῖς ὑμῶν καὶ ἐν ταῖς νουμηνίαις ὑμῶν σαλπιεῖτε ταῖς σάλπιγξιν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὁλοκαυτώμασιν καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖς θυσίαις τῶν σωτηρίων ὑμῶν, καὶ ἔσται ὑμῖν ἀνάμνησις ἔναντι τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν· ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἑὸς ὑμῶν.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Siquando habebitis epulum, et dies festos, et calendas, canetis tubis super holocaustis, et pacificis victimis, ut sint vobis in recordationem Dei vestri. Ego Dominus Deus vester.
“También en sus días de alegría, en sus fiestas señaladas y al principio de cada mes, tocarán las trompetas al ofrecer sus holocaustos y sus sacrificios de comunión; esto les servirá de recordatorio delante de su Dios. Yo soy Yehová, su Dios”.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y en el día de vuestra alegría, y en vuestras solemnidades, y en los principios de vuestros meses, tocaréis las trompetas sobre vuestros holocaustos, y sobre los sacrificios de vuestras paces, y os serán por memoria delante de vuestro Dios: Yo Jehová vuestro Dios.
And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.” From Sinai to Paran
✦ What the text says
Summary
Numbers 10:10 instructs that on days of rejoicing, at appointed feasts, and at the beginning of months, the trumpets are to be blown over burnt offerings and peace offerings, serving as a memorial before God. The verse closes with a self-identification formula: "I am Yehovah your God."
Key words
- sim.chat ("rejoicing", H8057) — feminine singular construct, forming the phrase "day of your rejoicing"; the construct state links it directly to the following suffix khem ("your").
- mo.'a.dei ("appointed feasts", H4150) — masculine plural construct, designating recurring fixed occasions, again bound to khem.
- te.ka'.Tem ("you will give a blast", H8628) — qal sequential perfect, second person masculine plural; the sequential form links this action to the preceding time markers, presenting it as the consequence or continuation of them.
- zi.ka.rOn ("a memorial", H2146) — masculine singular, functioning here as a predicate noun after ha.Yu ("they will become", H1961), describing the purpose of the trumpet blasts and offerings.
- 'a.Ni ("I", H0589) plus Yah.weh ("Yehovah", H3068) — an independent pronoun followed by the divine name, forming a self-declaration formula that closes the instruction.
What the text says
The verse opens with three parallel temporal phrases, each built as a construct chain with the pronominal suffix khem ("your"): yom sim.chat.khem ("the day of your rejoicing"), mo.'a.dei.khem ("your appointed feasts"), and ra.shei chod.shei.khem ("the beginnings of your months"). Each is introduced by the preposition ve ("and/on/at"), stacking the occasions before the main verb arrives. This front-loading of temporal clauses is a common Biblical Hebrew structure, where circumstantial elements precede the verb they govern.
The main action appears in te.ka'.Tem ("you will give a blast", H8628), a sequential perfect (vav-consecutive) form. This grammatical construction ties the trumpet-blowing to what precedes it, presenting it as the expected continuation of the listed occasions rather than an isolated command. The action is directed 'al ("over", H5921) the burnt offerings ('o.lo.tei.khem) and 'al the sacrifices of peace offerings (ziv.chei shal.mei.khem), both marked with construct chains carrying the same possessive suffix pattern seen earlier.
The second sequential perfect, ha.Yu ("they will become", H1961), introduces the result clause: the trumpet blasts and offerings "will become" (la.khem, "for you") le.zi.ka.rOn ("into a memorial", H2146) lif.nei 'e.lo.hei.khem ("before your God"). The construct chain 'e.lo.hei.khem ("God of you") recurs, tying the memorial function to the divine presence. The verse ends with the formula 'a.Ni Yah.weh 'e.lo.hei.khem ("I [am] Yehovah, your God"), where the independent pronoun 'a.Ni placed before the divine name creates emphatic self-identification, syntactically separate from the preceding instructions.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.