Numbers 10 · Verse 12

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.
Numbers 10:12, King James Version

Numbers 10:12 in other translations

BSBand the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
WEBThe children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
ASVAnd the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
YLTand the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran;
DARBYAnd the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stood still in the wilderness of Paran.
BBEAnd the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.
WebsterAnd the children of Israel took their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

What does Numbers 10:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. wilderness of Paran--It stretched from the base of the Sinaitic group, or from Et-Tyh, over that extensive plateau to the southwestern borders of Palestine.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 The cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran - This was three days' journey from the wilderness of Sinai, (see Num 10:33), and the people had three stations; the first at Kibroth-hattaavah, the second at Hazeroth, Num 11:35, and the third in the wilderness of Paran, see Num 12:16. But it is extremely difficult to determine these journeyings with any degree of exactness; and we are often at a loss to know whether the place in question was in a direct or retrograde position from the place previously mentioned.

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…

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Numbers 10:12 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.

וַיִּסְע֧וּvai.yis.'Uand they set outH5265
בְנֵֽי\־ve.nei-[the] people ofH1121
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖םle.mas.'ei.Hemto journeyings theirH4550
מִמִּדְבַּ֣רmi.mid.Barfrom [the] wilderness ofH4057
סִינָ֑יsi.NaiSinaiH5514
וַיִּשְׁכֹּ֥ןvai.yish.Konand it settled downH7931
הֶעָנָ֖ןhe.'a.Nanthe cloudH6051
בְּמִדְבַּ֥רbe.mid.Barin [the] wilderness ofH4057
פָּארָֽן\׃pa.RanParanH6290

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

Cross references for Numbers 10:12

  • Numbers 12:16

    And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

  • Genesis 21:21

    And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exodus 19:1-2

    In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

  • Numbers 13:3

    And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

  • 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.

  • Exodus 40:36-37

    And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

  • Deuteronomy 1:1

    These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

  • Numbers 13:26

    And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

  • 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 33:15-16

    And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.

  • 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,

  • Deuteronomy 33:2

    And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

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took.
33:16; Ex 13:20; 40:36,37; De 1:19
out of the.
1:1; 9:1,5; 33:15; Ex 19:1,2
the wilderness.
12:16; 13:3,26; Ge 21:21; De 1:1; 33:2; 1Sa 25:1; Hab 3:3

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Context

  • 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.

  • Numbers 10:13

    And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

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Numbers 10:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y movieron los hijos de Israel por sus partidas del desierto de Sinaí; y paró la nube en el desierto de Parán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et les fils d’Israël partirent du désert de Sinaï, selon leur ordre de départ, et la nuée demeura dans le désert de Paran.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und die Kinder Israel brachen auf aus der Wüste Sinai nach ihren Zügen und die Wolke ließ sich nieder in der Wüste Paran.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
profectique sunt filii Israël per turmas suas de deserto Sinai, et recubuit nubes in solitudine Pharan.