Numbers 9:22

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Summary

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.

Abode

General references

Exodus 40:37

Numbers 9:16

Psalm 136:16

Bible References

Abode

Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all which the Lord had commanded Moses, so they did.

Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites; according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

“He has not observed misfortune in Jacob;

Nor has He seen trouble in Israel;

The Lord his God is with him,

And the shout of a king is among them.

So the sons of Israel did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Thus Moses did; according to all that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.

“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

For such is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will guide us until death.

With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.

You led Your people like a flock
By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

He led them also by a

straight way,

To go to

an inhabited city.

Teach me to do Your will,

For You are my God;
Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

And do not lean on your own understanding.

Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for

what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;

General references

but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up.

So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

To Him who led His people through the wilderness,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting;