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Chapter 10 seems to be a chapter for the musician and the one that is interested in military history. This chapter is chocked full of music for the musician and military history.   You see military precision in this chapter.   The first half of the chapter God has Moses make some silver trumpets.   How many musicians would not love a 100% silver trumpet.   The trumpet here was intended for the same purpose it is used for today in the Army. We see that God instructs Moses about the different type of sounds to play from the trumpet.   As I read this chapter I reflected on the number of formations that I have been a part of where the trumpet is used to signal the various movements from the sound for the adjutant to the movement of troops.   Each note, each fanfare, each sound has meaning.   So it was for the trumpets that Moses used to assemble the people. The rest of the chapter deals with the movement.   The trumpet we see signaled the time to...