Numbers 9:22

Whether the cloud stayed on the tabernacle for two days, a month, or a year, for as long as it stayed there, the people of Israel would stay in their camp and not travel. But whenever the cloud was taken up, they would set out on their journey.

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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 was present in camp from evening until morning. When the cloud lifted in the morning, they journeyed. If it continued for a day and for a night, only when the cloud lifted would they journey on.

23They would camp at Yahweh's command, and they would travel at his command. They obeyed Yahweh's command given through Moses.

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Cross References

Exodus 40:16This is what Moses did; he followed all that Yahweh had commanded him. He did all these things.

Numbers 1:54The people of Israel did all these things. They did everything that Yahweh commanded through Moses.

Numbers 9:17Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the people of Israel would set out on their journey. Wherever the cloud stopped, the people would camp.

Deuteronomy 1:6“Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have lived long enough in this hill country.

Psalms 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go. 1 I will instruct you with my eye upon you. 1

Psalms 73:24You will guide me with your advice 1 and afterward receive me to glory. 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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