But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound.

And when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not blow an alarm:

But when the congregation is to be convened, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

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

But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly.

But when the people are to be gathered together, the sound of the trumpets shall be simple, and the sounds shall not be separated.

Quando vero congregabitis coetum, clangetis, sed absque jubila.tione.

But when the congregation is to be gathered together,.... At the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and not to move in separate camps or bodies one after another:
you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm; blow with an even and uninterrupted sound, and not with a broken and quavering one; by which the congregation and camps were distinguished from one another, the same certain sound being given to each constantly, whereby they knew which were called to motion: see 1-Corinthians 14:8; according to Ben Gersom blowing was a voice drawn out, and joined or continued; an alarm, a voice not joined, but broken.

But to call the congregation together they were to blow, not to sound an alarm. תּקע signifies blowing in short, sharp tones. הריע = תּרוּעה תּקע, blowing in a continued peal.