Numbers 9:15-23
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15Now on athe day that the tabernacle was erected bthe cloud covered the tabernacle, the ctent of the testimony, and din the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning. 16So it was continuously; athe cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17aNow whenever the cloud would go up from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp. 18At the 1command of Yahweh the sons of Israel would set out, and at the 2command of Yahweh they would camp; aas long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped. 19Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, 1the sons of Israel would keep the charge of Yahweh and not set out. 20If 1sometimes the cloud remained a few days over the tabernacle, aaccording to the 2command of Yahweh they remained camped. Then according to the 3command of Yahweh they set out. 21If 1sometimes the cloud 2remained from evening until morning, when the cloud was lifted in the morning, they would move out; or if it remained in the daytime and at night, whenever the cloud was lifted, they would set out. 22Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, dwelling above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did not set out; but awhen it was lifted, they did set out. 23aAt the 1command of Yahweh they camped, and at the 2command of Yahweh they set out; they kept the charge of Yahweh, according to the 3command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.