Numbers 9:19

New Living Translation

If the cloud remained over the Tabernacle for a long time, the Israelites stayed and performed their duty to the Lord.

Cross References

Exodus 40:37

But if the cloud did not rise, they remained where they were until it lifted.

Leviticus 8:35

Now stay at the entrance of the Tabernacle day and night for seven days, and do everything the Lord requires. If you fail to do this, you will die, for this is what the Lord has commanded.”

Zechariah 3:7

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: If you follow my ways and carefully serve me, then you will be given authority over my Temple and its courtyards. I will let you walk among these others standing here.

Numbers 3:8

They will also maintain all the furnishings of the sacred tent, serving in the Tabernacle on behalf of all the Israelites.

Numbers 9:18

In this way, they traveled and camped at the Lord’s command wherever he told them to go. Then they remained in their camp as long as the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle.

Numbers 9:20

Sometimes the cloud would stay over the Tabernacle for only a few days, so the people would stay for only a few days, as the Lord commanded. Then at the Lord’s command they would break camp and move on.