Numbers 9:22
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.
Numbers 9:22 in other translations
| BSB | Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out. |
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| WEB | Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled. |
| ASV | Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. |
| YLT | Whether two days, or a month, or days, in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle, to tabernacle over it, the sons of Israel encamp, and journey not; and in its being lifted up they journey; |
| DARBY | or two days, or a month, or many days, when the cloud was long upon the tabernacle, dwelling upon it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. |
| BBE | Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey. |
| Webster | Or whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining upon it, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed. |
What does Numbers 9:22 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 9:15-23
This cloud was appointed to be the visible sign and symbol of God's presence with Israel. Thus we are taught to see God always near us, both night and day. As long as the cloud rested on the tabernacle, so long they continued in the same place. There is no time lost, while we are waiting God's time. When the cloud was taken up, they removed, however comfortably they were encamped. We are kept at uncertainty…
Numbers 9:22 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 9:22
- 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.
- Psalms 32:8
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
- Exodus 39:42
According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
- Acts 1:4
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
- Deuteronomy 1:6-7
The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
- Numbers 9:17
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 Israel pitched their tents.
- Numbers 23:21-22
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
- Psalms 73:24
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- Psalms 143:10
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
- Psalms 107:7
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
- Deuteronomy 2:3-4
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
- Psalms 77:20
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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Context
- Numbers 9:21
And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
- Numbers 9:22
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.
- Numbers 9:23
At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed: they kept the charge of the Lord, at the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 9:22 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | O si dos días, ó un mes, ó un año, mientras la nube se detenía sobre el tabernáculo quedándose sobre él, los hijos de Israel se estaban acampados, y no movían: mas cuando ella se alzaba, ellos movían. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | ou si la nuée prolongeait sa demeure pendant deux jours, ou un mois, ou beaucoup de jours sur le tabernacle, pour y demeurer, les fils d’Israël campaient et ne partaient pas; mais quand elle se levait, ils partaient. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | oder zwei Tage oder einen Monat oder eine geraume Zeit -wenn die Wolke auf der Wohnung verweilte, indem sie darauf ruhte, so lagerten die Kinder Israel und brachen nicht auf; und wenn sie sich erhob, so brachen sie auf. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si vero biduo aut uno mense vel longiori tempore fuisset super tabernaculum, manebant filii Israël in eodem loco, et non proficiscebantur: statim autem ut recessisset, movebant castra. |