Numeri 9:22

22 Per quanto tempo la nuvola continuava a stanziare in sul Tabernacolo, o fossero due dì, o un mese, o un anno, tanto se ne stavano i figliuoli d’Israele accampati, e non si movevano; poi, quando la nuvola si alzava, si movevano.

Numeri 9:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 9:22

Or [whether it were] two days, or a month, or a year, that
the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle
Sometimes it tarried but half a day, sometimes a whole day, sometimes two days, at other times a whole month, and even a year; a full year, as the Targum of Jonathan and Aben Ezra; or a longer time, as the Vulgate Latin version, for in one place it tarried eighteen years, as Maimonides says ^F7; some say

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 nineteen years, as in Kadeshbarnea:

remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and
journeyed not;
so that, as the same writer observes, it was not because the children of Israel lost their way in the wilderness and wandered about, not knowing where they were, or which way they should go; hence the Arabians call the wilderness, the wilderness of wandering, nor that they were so long wandering in it as forty years, but because it was the will of God that should stay so long at one place, and so long at another, whereby their stay in it was protracted to such a length of time, according to his sovereign will:

but when it was taken up they journeyed;
though they had continued ever so long, and their situation ever so agreeable.

F7 Moreh Nevoch. par. 2. c. 50. p. 512.
F8 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 24.

Numeri 9:22 In-Context

20 O fosse che la nuvola stesse pochi dì in sul Tabernacolo, al comandamento del Signore si accampavano, e altresì al comandamento del Signore si movevano.

21 O fosse che la nuvola vi stesse dalla sera fino alla mattina, e poi si alzasse in su la mattina, essi si movevano; o fosse che, statavi un giorno ed una notte, poi si alzasse, essi parimente si movevano.

22 Per quanto tempo la nuvola continuava a stanziare in sul Tabernacolo, o fossero due dì, o un mese, o un anno, tanto se ne stavano i figliuoli d’Israele accampati, e non si movevano; poi, quando la nuvola si alzava, si movevano.

23 Al comandamento del Signore si accampavano, e al comandamento del Signore si movevano; e al comandamento del Signore, dato per Mosè, attendevano alle fazioni del servigio del Signore.