Or whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
And the time in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, was thirty eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were destroyed out from among the host, as the LORD swore to them.
And command the people, saying, You are to pass through the territory of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore:
For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand: he knows your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.