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Numbers 9:21

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19 Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.

20 Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.

Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.

22 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.

23 They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.

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BSB
Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.
KJV
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.
WEB
Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled.
ASV
And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed: or [if it continued] by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
DARBY
And if it were so that the cloud was there from the evening until the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed; or a day and a night, and the cloud was taken up, they journeyed;
BLB
And it was, when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and the cloud was taken up in the morning, [that] they would journey. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud was taken up, they would journey.
ÅB
Men stundom hendte det at skyen var der bare fra kveld til morgen; når da skyen løftet seg om morgenen, brøt de opp. Eller den var der en dag og en natt; når da skyen løftet seg, brøt de opp.
OTB
Hvis skyen bare ble fra kveld til morgen, når den løftet seg om morgenen, brøt de opp. Enten det var dag eller natt, når skyen løftet seg, brøt de opp.
B1930
Men stundom hendte det at skyen var der bare fra aften til morgen; når da skyen løftet sig om morgenen, brøt de op. Eller den var der en dag og en natt; når da skyen løftet sig, brøt de op.

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Cross references

  • Nehemiah 9:19

    You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

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  • Nehemiah 9:12

    You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.

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