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Numbers 9:20

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9:20When43 the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days,44 they remained camped according to the Lord’s commandment,45 and according to the Lord’s commandment they would journey.

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Footnotes

  1. 43 The sentence uses וְיֵשׁ (véyesh) followed by a noun clause introduced with אֲשֶׁר (’asher) to express an existing situation; it is best translated as an adverbial clause of time: “and it was when the cloud was.…”
  2. 44 The word “number” is in apposition to the word “days” to indicate that their stay was prolonged for quite a few days.
  3. 45 Heb “mouth of the Lord.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the Lord they remained in camp; then according to the command of the Lord they set out.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days; at the Lord’s command they would encamp, and then at his command they would set out.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days. They would camp at the Lord’s command and set out at the Lord’s command.

NLTNew Living Translation

Sometimes the cloud would stay over the Tabernacle for only a few days, so the people would stay for only a few days, as the Lord commanded. Then at the Lord’s command they would break camp and move on.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

When the cloud remained a number of days on the tabernacle, on the command of Yahweh they encamped; and on the command of Yahweh they set out.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.