Numbers 10:11-13

The Tribes Leave Sinai

11 Now in ¹the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony;

12 and the sons of Israel set out on ²their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the ³wilderness of Paran.

13 ⁴So they moved out for the first time according to the commandment of the LORD through Moses.

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Numbers 10:11-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10

This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Nu 10:1-10; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Nu 10:11-28; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Nu 10:29-32; and the chapter is closed with the prayer of Moses at the setting forward of the ark, and the resting of it, Nu 10:33-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 4

1. Exodus 40:17
2. Exodus 40:36
3. Genesis 21:21; Numbers 12:16
4. Deuteronomy 1:6

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "dwelling place," and so throughout the ch
[b]. Lit "mouth"