Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
- KJV And 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.
- BSB On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
- NASB Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the testimony;
- NLT In the second year after Israel’s departure from Egypt—on the twentieth day of the second month—the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle of the Covenant.
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Quick answer
In the second year and second month, the cloud lifted, signaling Israel to leave Sinai. The long-awaited journey to the promised land begins.
Overview
After nearly a year encamped at Sinai, the cloud rose and Israel set out at last. This pivotal moment marks the transition from receiving the law to journeying toward Canaan, showing God moving His redeemed people onward toward the inheritance He had promised.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Num 9:5They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
- Num 9:17–23Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
- Num 1:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Exod 40:17In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.
- Exod 40:2“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
- Num 9:11In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Num 9:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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