Numbers 9:22

If the cloud stayed in one place for two days, or a month, or longer, the Israelites stayed where they were and didn't leave as long as the cloud remained over the Tabernacle. However, once it rose, they would leave.

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In The King James Version

Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

In Context

21Sometimes the cloud only stayed overnight, so when it rose in the morning they would move on. Whenever the cloud rose, day or night, they would leave.

23They camped when the Lord told them to, and left when he told them to. They followed the Lord's instructions that he gave to Moses.

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Cross References

Exodus 40:16Moses carried out all the Lord's instructions.

Numbers 1:54The Israelites did everything that the Lord ordered Moses that they should do.

Numbers 9:17When the cloud rose from over the Tent, the Israelites would move on, and where the cloud stopped, the Israelites would set up camp there.

Deuteronomy 1:6The Lord our God told us at Horeb: “You have remained here beside this mountain for long enough.

Psalms 32:8“I will instruct you, teaching you the way to follow. I will advise you, watching out for you.

Psalms 73:24You tell me what to do; and ultimately you will welcome me in glory.

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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