Numbers 10 · Verse 11

Numbers 10:11

And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
Numbers 10:11, King James Version

Numbers 10:11 in other translations

BSBOn the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
WEBIn the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.
ASVAnd it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
YLTAnd it cometh to pass--in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month--the cloud hath gone up from off the tabernacle of the testimony,
DARBYAnd it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
BBENow in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.
WebsterAnd it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

What does Numbers 10:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. It came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, &c.--The Israelites had lain encamped in Wady-Er-Rahah and the neighboring valleys of the Sinaitic range for the space of eleven months and twenty-nine days. (Compare Ex 19:1). Besides the religious purposes of the highest importance to which their long sojourn at Sinai was subservient, the Israelites, after the hardships and oppression of the Egyptian servitude, required an interval of repose and refreshment. They were neither physically nor morally in a condition to enter the lists with the warlike people they had to encounter before obtaining possession of Canaan. But the wondrous transactions at Sinai--the arm of Jehovah so visibly displayed in their favor--the covenant entered into, and the special blessings guaranteed, beginning a course of moral and religious education which moulded the character of this people--made them acquainted with their high destiny and inspired them with those noble principles of divine truth and righteousness which alone make a great nation.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 The twentieth day of the second month - The Israelites had lain encamped in the wilderness of Sinai about eleven months and twenty days; compare Exo 19:1 with this verse. They now received the order of God to decamp, and proceed towards the promised land; and therefore the Samaritan introduces at this place the words which we find in Deu 1:6-8 : "The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying: Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount, turn and take your journey," etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 10:11-28
After the Israelites had continued nearly a year at mount Sinai, and all was settled respecting their future worship, they began their march to Canaan. True religion begins with the knowledge of the holy law of God, and humiliation for sin, but we must go on towards perfection, in acquaintance with Christ and his gospel, and those effectual encouragements, motives, and assistances to holiness, which it proposes. They took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord, De 1:6-8, and as the cloud led them. Those who give themselves to the direction of God's word and Spirit, steer a steady course, even when they seem bewildered. While they are sure they cannot lose their God and Guide, they need not fear losing their way. They went out of the wilderness of Sinai, and rested in the wilderness of Paran. All our removes in this world are but from one wilderness to another. The changes we think will be for the better do not always prove so. We shall never be at rest, never at home, till we come to heaven, but all will be well there.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Numbers 10:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְהִ֞יvay.Hiand it wasH1961
בַּשָּׁנָ֧הba.sha.Nahin the yearH8141
הַשֵּׁנִ֛יתha.she.Nit<the> secondH8145
בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320
הַשֵּׁנִ֖יha.she.Ni<the> secondH8145
בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣יםbe.'es.Rimon [day] twentyH6242
בַּחֹ֑דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320
נַעֲלָה֙na.'a.Lahit was taken upH5927
הֶֽעָנָ֔ןhe.'a.Nanthe cloudH6051
מֵעַ֖לme.'Alfrom overH5921
מִשְׁכַּ֥ןmish.Kan[the] tabernacle ofH4908
הָעֵדֻֽת\׃ha.'e.Dutthe testimonyH5715

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 10:11

  • Numbers 9:11

    The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

  • Exodus 40:2

    On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

  • Exodus 40:17

    And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

  • Numbers 1:1

    And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • Numbers 9:17-23

    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 Israel pitched their tents. At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not. And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. …

  • Numbers 9:1

    And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • Numbers 9:5

    And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
An. Ex. Is 2. Ijar. on.The Israelites had lain encamped in the wilderness of Sinai about eleven months and twenty days (comp. Ex 19:1); and they now received the order of God to decamp, and proceed to the promised land: the Samaritan, therefore, introduces at this place, nearly the words of De 1:6-8: "And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount; turn, and take your journey, etc."
1:1; 9:1,5,11; Ex 40:2
the cloud.
9:17-23

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Context

  • Numbers 10:10

    Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God.

  • Numbers 10:11

    And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

  • Numbers 10:12

    And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

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Numbers 10:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y fué en el año segundo, en el mes segundo, á los veinte del mes, que la nube se alzó del tabernáculo del testimonio.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*Et il arriva, en la seconde année, au second mois, le vingtième jour du mois, que la nuée se leva de dessus le tabernacle du témoignage.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und es geschah im zweiten Jahre, im zweiten Monat, am Zwanzigsten des Monats, da erhob sich die Wolke von der Wohnung des Zeugnisses.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Anno secundo, mense secundo, vigesima die mensis, elevata est nubes de tabernaculo fœderis: