Numbers 9:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

At the commandment of the LORD the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the LORD they would make camp; as long as the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 10:1 : 1 Learning from Israel’s Failures For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,
  • 2 John 1:6 : 6 (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.
  • Exod 17:1 : 1 Water at Massa and Meribah The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the wilderness of Sin according to the LORD’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.
  • Num 9:20 : 20 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD’s commandment, and according to the LORD’s commandment they would journey.
  • Num 10:13 : 13 Judah Begins the Journey This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.

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  • Num 9:19-23
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    91%

    19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey.

    20 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD’s commandment, and according to the LORD’s commandment they would journey.

    21 And when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled.

    22 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.

    23 At the commandment of the LORD they camped, and at the commandment of the LORD they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the LORD according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.

  • Num 9:15-17
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    15 The Leading of the Lord On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle– the tent of the testimony– and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.

    16 This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

    17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

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    36 But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;

    37 but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up.

    38 For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be on it at night, in plain view of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

  • 34 So the Israelites did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; that is the way they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.

  • Num 1:52-54
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    52 “The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

    53 But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the LORD’s anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony.”

    54 The Israelites did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses– that is what they did.

  • Num 10:33-34
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    33 So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.

    34 And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

  • Num 10:11-13
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    11 The Journey From Sinai to Kadesh On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.

    12 So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the desert of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.

    13 Judah Begins the Journey This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.

  • 28 These were the traveling arrangements of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled.

  • 33 the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.

  • 17 The Tribe in the Center“Then the tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites will travel in the middle of the camps. They will travel in the same order as they camped, each in his own place under his standard.

  • 2 After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

  • 12 You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

  • Num 2:1-2
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    74%

    1 The Arrangement of the Tribes The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron:

    2 “Every one of the Israelites must camp under his standard with the emblems of his family; they must camp at some distance around the tent of meeting.

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    20 They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

    21 Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.

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

  • Num 33:1-2
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    1 Wanderings from Egypt to Sinai These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

    2 Moses recorded their departures according to their journeys, by the commandment of the LORD; now these are their journeys according to their departures.

  • 32 Moses Inspects the Sanctuary So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses– they did it exactly so.

  • 1 Balaam Refuses to Curse Israel The Israelites traveled on and camped in the rift valley plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River across from Jericho.

  • 28 and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

  • 19 The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

  • 19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • 10 When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship.

  • 14 He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.

  • 19 “Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

  • 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

  • 1 The Tribes Meet at Shiloh The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,

  • 15 The LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.

  • 19 just as the LORD had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the desert of Sinai.

  • 21 And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.

  • 22 They traveled from Rissah and camped in Kehelathah.

  • 7 The Presence of the Lord Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone seeking the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

  • 11 So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the LORD around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

  • 10 Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the LORD’s temple.

  • 49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the rift valley plains of Moab.