Numbers 9:22

When the cloud continues a full month overshadowing the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp, and shall not depart.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

21And it shall come to pass, whenever the cloud shall remain from the evening till the morning, and in the morning the cloud shall go up, then shall they remove by day or by night.

23For they shall depart by the command of the Lord—they kept the charge of the Lord by the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

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Cross References

Exodus 40:16And Moses did all things whatsoever the Lord commanded him, so did he.

Numbers 1:54And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

Numbers 9:17And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel departed; and in whatever place the cloud rested, there the children of Israel encamped.

Deuteronomy 1:6The Lord your God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, Let it suffice you to have dwelt so long in this mountain.

Psalms 32:8Let all the earth fear the Lord; 1 And let all that dwell in the world be moved because of him. 1

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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