The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel’s departure from the land of Egypt:

and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more,

In the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, the Lord told Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

During the second year, in the second month on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was lifted up above the tabernacle of the testimony.