The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
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- KJV And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
- BSB and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- ESV and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
- NKJV And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys; then the cloud settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.
- NASB and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.
- NLT So the Israelites set out from the wilderness of Sinai and traveled on from place to place until the cloud stopped in the wilderness of Paran.
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Quick answer
Israel set out from Sinai by stages, and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran. The nation moved under God's guidance toward the land.
Overview
Following the cloud, Israel journeyed from Sinai to Paran, advancing toward Canaan. Their orderly progress under God's lead displays a people redeemed and now being brought to their promised rest, a pattern of the believer's pilgrimage under God's guidance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Num 12:16Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
- Gen 21:21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Deut 1:1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
- 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 19:1–2In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
- Num 13:3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
- Num 13:26They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
- 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.
- Exod 40:36–37When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
- 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,
- Hab 3:3God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
- Deut 33:2He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
- Deut 1:19We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
- 1 Sam 25:1Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
- Exod 13:20They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
- Num 33:15–16They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
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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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