Numbers 10:11-12

Israel Leaves Sinai

11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, ¹the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

12 and the people of Israel ²set out by stages from the ³wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the ⁴wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 10:11-12 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.

Cross References

• 1. 10:11 ch. 9:17
• 2. 10:12 [Ex. 40:36]
• 3. 10:12 ch. 1:1; 9:5; Ex. 19:1, 2
• 4. 10:12 ch. 12:16; 13:3, 26; Gen. 21:21; Deut. 1:1