Numbers 9:15–23

The Cloud and the Fire

¹⁵And on a day setting up the tabernacle, the cloud covered the tent of the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; in the evening it was on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire until morning. ¹⁶So it wasⁿ continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night. ¹⁷Whenever the cloud lifted up from on the tent, after that the Israelites^o would set out, and in the place where the cloud dwelled, there the Israelites^p camped. ¹⁸On the command of Yahweh^q the Israelites^r would set out, and on the command of Yahweh^s they encamped; all the days that the cloud dwelled on the tabernacle they encamped. ¹⁹And when the cloud prolonged on the tabernacle many days the Israelites^t kept the kept requirement of Yahweh and did not set out. ²⁰When the cloud remained^u a number of days on the tabernacle, on the command of Yahweh^v they encamped; and on the command of Yahweh^w they set out. ²¹When the cloud remained^x from evening until morning, and the cloud lifted up in the morning, they would set out, or if it remained in the daytime and at night, when the cloud lifted up they set out. ²²When it was two days, a month, or a year^y that the cloud prolonged to dwell on the tabernacle, the Israelites^z encamped, and they did not set out; when it lifted up they set out. ²³On the command of Yahweh^a they encamped, and on the command of Yahweh^b they set out. They kept the requirement of Yahweh, on the command of Yahweh^c in the hand of Moses.^d