Numbers 9:20

For as many days soever as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. At the commandment of the Lord they pitched their tents, and at his commandment they took them down.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.

In Context

19And if it was so that it continued over it a long time, the children of Israel kept the watches of the Lord, and marched not,

21If the cloud tarried from evening until morning, and immediately at break of day left the tabernacle, they marched forward: and if it departed after a day and a night, they took down their tents.

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Cross References

Numbers 9:18At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his commandment they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud abode over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place:

Deuteronomy 7:21Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:

Matthew Henry on Numbers 9:16-23

The Pillar of Cloud and Fire. ( b. c. 1490.) 15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of… Read the whole commentary →

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