⁷ yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

² `Make to thee two trumpets of silver; beaten work thou dost make them, and they have been to thee for the convocation of the company, and for the journeying of the camps;

³ and they have blown with them, and all the company have met together unto thee, unto the opening of the tent of meeting.

⁴ And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee;

⁵ `And ye have blown -- a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed.

⁶ `And ye have blown -- a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys.

⁷ `And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout;

⁸ and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.

⁹ `And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies.

¹⁰ `And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, `am' your God.'

¹⁷ and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.

³² they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

¹ If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

⁸ for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?