And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
Parallel translations
- WEB When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
- BSB Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.
- NKJV Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys.
- NASB Throughout their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;
- NLT Now whenever the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out on their journey, following it.
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Quick answer
When the cloud lifted from the tabernacle, Israel set out on their journey. God's presence directed their travels.
Overview
The cloud of God's presence served as Israel's guide; its lifting was the signal to break camp and move forward. This showed that the nation's journey was governed not by their own planning but by God's leading. It illustrates the life of faith, in which God's people are called to follow His guidance and presence step by step.
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- Neh 9:19Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
- Num 9:17And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
- Num 10:11–13And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
- Exod 13:21–22And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
- Num 19:17–22And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
- Ps 78:14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
- Ps 105:39He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
- Num 10:33–36And they departed from the mount of the LORD 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.
- 1 Cor 10:1Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
- 2 Cor 5:19–20To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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