Numbers 10 in the early church

31 passages quote, allude to, or echo Numbers 10, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 29 · 33 · 35

Numbers 10:1

Then the LORD said to Moses,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:1–29	Numbers, lines 176–201 · Cyprianus Gallus	allusion, high confidence	early 5th cent.

Numbers 10:2

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:2	PG 12:1677 (Ps 150 LXX) · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Num 10:2	Homilies on Joshua 7.1 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Num 10:2	Homilies on Joshua 7.2 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Num 10:2	Homilies on Jeremiah 5.16 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 240
Num 10:2	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)
Num 10:2	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 51.32.8 · Epiphanius of Salamis	allusion, medium confidence	374-377

Numbers 10:3

When both are sounded, the whole congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:3	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)

Numbers 10:4

But if only one is sounded, then the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather before you.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:4	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)

Numbers 10:5

When you sound short blasts, the camps that lie on the east side are to set out.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:5	Homilies on Joshua 25.1 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Num 10:5	Homilies on Joshua 25.4 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Num 10:5	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)

Numbers 10:6

When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:6	Homilies on Joshua 25.1 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Num 10:6	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)

Numbers 10:7

To convene the assembly, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:7	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)

Numbers 10:8

The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:8	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)

Numbers 10:9

When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:9	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)
Num 10:9	On Elijah and Fasting 1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-390

Numbers 10:10

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 peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:10	Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 52 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)
Num 10:10	Letter 119.10 · Jerome	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–419
Num 10:10	Letter 149.6 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419
Num 10:10	On Elijah and Fasting 1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-390
Num 10:10	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.19.4 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397

Numbers 10:11

On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:11	Letter 78.15 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419

Numbers 10:12

and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:12	Letter 78.15 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419

Numbers 10:29

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:29	Preparation for the Gospel 9.29.1 · Eusebius of Caesarea	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 313–324
Num 10:29	Oration IV Against the Arians 33 · Athanasius of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	4th century (disputed)
Num 10:29–33	Numbers, lines 202–226 · Cyprianus Gallus	allusion, high confidence	early 5th cent.

Numbers 10:33

So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:33–36	Numbers, lines 227–251 · Cyprianus Gallus	allusion, high confidence	early 5th cent.

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 10:35	PG 12:1499 (Ps 65–67 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Num 10:35	Letter to Marcellinus 32 · Athanasius of Alexandria	allusion, medium confidence	uncertain, after 335