Numbers 9:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

Or whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud lingered upon the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained in their tents and did not journey: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Whether it remained for two days, a month, or longer, as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, the people of Israel remained camped and did not set out. But when it lifted, they set out.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    But when ye cloude taryed two dayes or a moneth or a longe season apon the habitacion as longe as it taried thereon the childern of Israel kepte their tentes and iurneyed not. And as soone as the cloude was taken vpp they iurneyed.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But whan it taried vpon the habitacion two dayes, or a moneth, or a longe season, then laye the children of Israel, and iourneyed not: and so whan it was taken vp, they wente on their iourney.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Or if the cloude taryed two dayes or a moneth, or a yeere vpon the Tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel abode still, and iourneyed not: but when it was taken vp, they iourneyed.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Or if the cloude taryed two dayes, or a moneth, or a yere vpon the tabernacle and remayned theron, the children of Israel remayned styll and iourneyed not: And assoone as the cloude was taken vp, they iourneyed.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 40:36-37 : 36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 37 But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey until the day that it was taken up.
  • Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
  • Ps 48:14 : 14 For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even unto death.
  • Ps 73:24 : 24 You shall guide me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
  • Ps 77:20 : 20 You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
  • Ps 107:7 : 7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
  • Ps 143:10 : 10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God: Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
  • Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
  • Acts 1:4 : 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, you have heard from Me.
  • Num 1:54 : 54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.
  • Num 8:20 : 20 Thus Moses, Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
  • Num 9:17 : 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel set out: and in the place where the cloud stayed, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
  • Num 23:21-22 : 21 He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. 22 God brought them out of Egypt; he has the strength of a wild ox.
  • Deut 1:6-7 : 6 The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley, and in the south, and by the sea, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.
  • Deut 2:3-4 : 3 You have circled this mountain long enough; turn northward. 4 And command the people, saying, You are to pass through the coast of your brethren, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you; take good heed to yourselves therefore.
  • Exod 39:42 : 42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
  • Exod 40:16 : 16 Thus did Moses, according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 9:15-21
    7 verses
    90%

    15And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and in the evening there was over the tabernacle the appearance of fire, until the morning.

    16So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

    17And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel set out: and in the place where the cloud stayed, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

    18At the command of the LORD the children of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle they remained in their tents.

    19And when the cloud lingered long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.

    20And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the command of the LORD they remained in their tents, and according to the command of the LORD they journeyed.

    21And so it was, when the cloud stayed from evening until the morning, and when 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.

  • Exod 40:34-38
    5 verses
    84%

    34Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

    35And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud stayed upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

    36And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

    37But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey until the day that it was taken up.

    38For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

  • Num 9:23
    80%

    23At the command of the LORD they remained in the tents, and at the command of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

  • Num 10:11-13
    3 verses
    79%

    11And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the testimony.

    12And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

    13And they first set out according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

  • Exod 13:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20And they took their journey from Succoth, and camped in Etham, at the edge of the wilderness.

    21And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

    22He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

  • Num 10:33-34
    2 verses
    77%

    33And they departed from the mount of the LORD, a three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.

    34And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

  • Neh 9:12
    74%

    12Moreover, You led them by day with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way they should go.

  • Deut 1:33
    73%

    33Who went in the way before you, to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, in fire by night to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.

  • Exod 40:17
    72%

    17And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was set up.

  • Exod 19:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1In the third month, when the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

    2For they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the desert of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mountain.

  • Neh 9:19
    72%

    19Yet in Your overwhelming mercies, You did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud did not depart from them by day to lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night to show them light and the way they should go.

  • Exod 24:18
    72%

    18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain: and Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Num 10:28
    72%

    28Thus were the journeys of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.

  • Exod 24:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15And Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.

    16And the glory of the LORD abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

  • Exod 14:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them, and stood behind them:

    20And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one did not come near the other all night.

  • Num 1:52
    72%

    52And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their armies.

  • Ps 78:14
    71%

    14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

  • Deut 1:2
    71%

    2(It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.)

  • Num 2:17
    70%

    17Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall move forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp. As they camp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.

  • Exod 10:23
    70%

    23They saw not one another, nor did any rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

  • Num 2:34
    70%

    34The children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they camped by their standards, and so they moved forward, every one by their families, according to the house of their fathers.

  • Deut 1:46
    70%

    46So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you stayed there.

  • Num 14:44
    70%

    44But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

  • Exod 33:10
    69%

    10And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10
    69%

    10And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

  • Num 33:2
    69%

    2And Moses recorded their departures according to their journeys by the command of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their departures.

  • Deut 31:15
    69%

    15And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

  • Num 10:21
    69%

    21And the Kohathites set forward, carrying the sanctuary: and the others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

  • Num 2:2
    69%

    2Every man of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, with the emblem of his father's house. They shall camp at a distance around the tabernacle of the congregation.