King James Version
Numbers 10:12 in the King James Version says “And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.”
Numbers 10:12 · KJV
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
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.
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
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“took”
H5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e., start on a journey
“And the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“their journeys”
H4550a departure (from striking the tents), i.e., march (not necessarily a single day's travel); by implication, a station (or point of departure)
“in the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
“and the cloud”
H6051a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e., the nimbus or thunder-cloud
“in the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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