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And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/numbers/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/numbers/10.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/numbers/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/numbers/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/numbers/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/numbers/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/numbers/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/numbers/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />and the Israelites set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud [of the LORD’S guiding presence] settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/numbers/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The Israelites traveled on from the Wilderness of Sinai, moving from one place to the next until the cloud stopped in the Wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/numbers/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The Israelites traveled on from the Wilderness of Sinai, moving from one place to the next until the cloud stopped in the Wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/numbers/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/numbers/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />So the Israelites broke camp and left the Sinai Desert. And some time later, the cloud stopped in the Paran Desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/numbers/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/numbers/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />So the Israelites moved from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the [column of] smoke stopped in the Desert of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/numbers/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />and the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/numbers/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />so the Israelis set out from the Sinai Wilderness until the cloud settled in the Paran Wilderness, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/numbers/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/numbers/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/numbers/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/numbers/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the children of Israel took their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/numbers/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/numbers/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and the sons of Israel journey in their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud dwells in the wilderness of Paran;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/numbers/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/numbers/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the sons of Israel will remove for their departure from the desert of Sinai; and the cloud will dwell in the desert of Paran.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/numbers/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/numbers/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And the sons of Israel set out by their companies from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/numbers/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />and the Israelites moved on from the wilderness of Sinai by stages, until the cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/numbers/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then the Israelites set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/numbers/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And the children of Israel took their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/numbers/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And the children of Israel picked up in their moving from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud dwelt in the wilderness of Paran.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/numbers/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the children of Israel set forward by their stages out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/numbers/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the children of Israel set forward with their baggage in the wilderness of Sina; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/numbers/10-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yauBFvKLNNo?start=3335" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/numbers/10.htm">From Sinai to Paran</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11</span>On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony, <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ḇə·nê- (N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">and the Israelites</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5265.htm" title="5265: way·yis·‘ū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To pull out or up, set out, journey. A primitive root; properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. Start on a journey.">set out</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: mim·miḏ·bar (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">from the Wilderness</a> <a href="/hebrew/5514.htm" title="5514: sî·nāy (N-proper-fs) -- The mountain where the law was given. Of uncertain derivation; Sinai, mountain of Arabia.">of Sinai,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4550.htm" title="4550: lə·mas·‘ê·hem (Prep-l:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- A pulling up, breaking (camp), setting out, a journey. From naca'; a departure, i.e. March; by implication, a station.">traveling from place to place</a> <a href="/hebrew/6051.htm" title="6051: he·‘ā·nān (Art:: N-ms) -- A cloud mass, cloud. From anan; a cloud, i.e. The nimbus or thunder-cloud.">until the cloud</a> <a href="/hebrew/7931.htm" title="7931: way·yiš·kōn (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- A primitive root (by transmission) to shakab through the idea of lodging; compare cikluwth, shakam); to reside or permanently stay.">settled</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: bə·miḏ·bar (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">in the Wilderness</a> <a href="/hebrew/6290.htm" title="6290: pā·rān (N-proper-fs) -- A place in Sinai. From pa'ar; ornamental; Paran, a desert of Arabia.">of Paran.</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/13-20.htm">Exodus 13:20-22</a></span><br />They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. / And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night. / Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/40-36.htm">Exodus 40:36-38</a></span><br />Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey. / If the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was taken up. / For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-6.htm">Deuteronomy 1:6-8</a></span><br />The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough. / Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates. / See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-19.htm">Deuteronomy 1:19</a></span><br />And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2</a></span><br />Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-19.htm">Nehemiah 9:19-21</a></span><br />You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go. / You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst. / For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/78-14.htm">Psalm 78:14</a></span><br />He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/105-39.htm">Psalm 105:39</a></span><br />He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/63-11.htm">Isaiah 63:11-14</a></span><br />Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them, / who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown, / who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/7-36.htm">Acts 7:36-38</a></span><br />He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness. / This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ / He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">1 Corinthians 10:1-2</a></span><br />I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. / They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm">Hebrews 3:7-11</a></span><br />Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, / do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/3-16.htm">Hebrews 3:16-19</a></span><br />For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? / And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? / And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-1.htm">Hebrews 4:1-2</a></span><br />Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. / For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-6.htm">Hebrews 4:6-11</a></span><br />Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, / God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” / For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.</p><p class="hdg">took</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/33-16.htm">Numbers 33:16</a></b></br> And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/13-20.htm">Exodus 13:20</a></b></br> And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/40-36.htm">Exodus 40:36,37</a></b></br> And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: … </p><p class="hdg">out of the</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/1-1.htm">Numbers 1:1</a></b></br> And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first <i>day</i> of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/9-1.htm">Numbers 9:1,5</a></b></br> And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/33-15.htm">Numbers 33:15</a></b></br> And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.</p><p class="hdg">the wilderness</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/12-16.htm">Numbers 12:16</a></b></br> And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/13-3.htm">Numbers 13:3,26</a></b></br> And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men <i>were</i> heads of the children of Israel… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/21-21.htm">Genesis 21:21</a></b></br> And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/numbers/9-22.htm">Abode</a> <a href="/numbers/10-11.htm">Cloud</a> <a href="/numbers/9-5.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/numbers/10-4.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/numbers/9-22.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/numbers/10-6.htm">Journey</a> <a href="/exodus/17-1.htm">Journeyings</a> <a href="/numbers/10-6.htm">Journeys</a> <a href="/genesis/21-21.htm">Paran</a> <a href="/numbers/9-22.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/numbers/9-23.htm">Rested</a> <a href="/numbers/9-18.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/numbers/9-5.htm">Sinai</a> <a href="/exodus/17-1.htm">Stages</a> <a href="/numbers/9-17.htm">Stood</a> <a href="/numbers/10-11.htm">Tabernacle</a> <a href="/numbers/9-23.htm">Traveled</a> <a href="/numbers/9-5.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/numbers/9-5.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/11-35.htm">Abode</a> <a href="/numbers/11-25.htm">Cloud</a> <a href="/numbers/10-31.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/numbers/10-28.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/numbers/11-4.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/numbers/10-13.htm">Journey</a> <a href="/numbers/10-28.htm">Journeyings</a> <a href="/numbers/33-1.htm">Journeys</a> <a href="/numbers/12-16.htm">Paran</a> <a href="/numbers/10-33.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/numbers/11-25.htm">Rested</a> <a href="/numbers/11-9.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/numbers/26-64.htm">Sinai</a> <a href="/numbers/33-1.htm">Stages</a> <a href="/numbers/11-32.htm">Stood</a> <a href="/numbers/10-21.htm">Tabernacle</a> <a href="/numbers/10-33.htm">Traveled</a> <a href="/numbers/10-31.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/numbers/10-31.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Numbers 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/10-1.htm">The use of the silver trumpets</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/10-11.htm">The Israelites move from Sinai to Paran</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/10-14.htm">The order of their march</a></span><br><span class="reftext">29. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/10-29.htm">Hobab is entreated by Moses not to leave them</a></span><br><span class="reftext">33. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/10-33.htm">The blessing of Moses at the removing and resting of the ark</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Wilderness of Sinai is where they received the Law, including the Ten Commandments, and where the Tabernacle was constructed. This departure signifies moving from a period of receiving divine instruction to a phase of journeying towards the Promised Land. The Wilderness of Sinai is a rugged, mountainous region, emphasizing the harsh conditions the Israelites faced. This movement is a fulfillment of God's promise to lead them to a land flowing with milk and honey, as initially promised to Abraham (<a href="/genesis/12.htm">Genesis 12:1-3</a>).<p><b>traveling from place to place</b><br>The phrase indicates a nomadic lifestyle, which was common for the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness. This journey was not direct but involved various stops, as directed by God. The movement from place to place reflects the testing and refining process God used to prepare His people for entering Canaan. It also symbolizes the Christian journey of faith, where believers are often led through various life stages and challenges.<p><b>until the cloud settled</b><br>The cloud represents the presence and guidance of God, as seen in <a href="/exodus/13-21.htm">Exodus 13:21-22</a>. It was a visible sign of God's leadership and protection. The cloud settling indicates a divine decision for the Israelites to stop and encamp. This reliance on God's guidance is a recurring theme in Scripture, emphasizing the importance of following divine direction rather than human wisdom.<p><b>in the Wilderness of Paran</b><br>The Wilderness of Paran is a large desert area located in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula. It is significant as a place of testing and rebellion, notably where the spies were sent into Canaan (Numbers 13). Paran is also associated with Ishmael, who settled there (<a href="/genesis/21-21.htm">Genesis 21:21</a>). Theologically, Paran represents a place of preparation and decision, where the Israelites faced choices that would impact their future. It serves as a reminder of the consequences of faith and disobedience, as seen in the subsequent events of <a href="/numbers/13.htm">Numbers 13 and 14</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were delivered from slavery in Egypt and are now journeying to the Promised Land.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/w/wilderness_of_sinai.htm">Wilderness of Sinai</a></b><br>A significant location where the Israelites received the Law from God through Moses. It represents a place of divine revelation and covenant.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/w/wilderness_of_paran.htm">Wilderness of Paran</a></b><br>A desert region where the Israelites traveled after leaving Sinai. It is a place of transition and testing for the Israelites.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_cloud.htm">The Cloud</a></b><br>A manifestation of God's presence and guidance. The cloud led the Israelites on their journey, indicating when they should set out and when they should camp.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The leader of the Israelites, chosen by God to deliver His people from Egypt and guide them to the Promised Land.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_guidance.htm">Divine Guidance</a></b><br>Just as the Israelites followed the cloud, believers today are called to seek and follow God's guidance in their lives. This requires attentiveness to His leading through prayer, Scripture, and the Holy Spirit.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_in_transition.htm">Faith in Transition</a></b><br>The journey from Sinai to Paran symbolizes times of transition in our lives. Trusting God during these periods is crucial, as He leads us through uncertainty to His promises.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_timing.htm">Obedience to God's Timing</a></b><br>The Israelites moved only when the cloud moved. Similarly, we must learn to wait on God's timing and act in obedience when He directs us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_journey.htm">Community Journey</a></b><br>The Israelites traveled together as a community. In our spiritual journey, we are called to support and encourage one another, recognizing that we are part of a larger body of believers.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/testing_and_growth.htm">Testing and Growth</a></b><br>The wilderness experiences are often times of testing and growth. Embrace these moments as opportunities for spiritual development and deeper reliance on God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_numbers_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Numbers 10</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_moses_die_in_the_bible.htm">How did Moses die according to biblical accounts?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_reconcile_deut._33_2_with_no_evidence.htm">In Deuteronomy 33:2, how do we reconcile the claim of God’s appearance from Sinai, Seir, and Paran with the lack of archaeological evidence for these events? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_israelites'_sinai_route.htm">Numbers 10:11-12: Is there archaeological or historical evidence supporting the exact timing and route described for the Israelites' departure from Sinai?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_2_trumpets_coordinate_a_multitude.htm">Numbers 10:1-2: How could two silver trumpets effectively coordinate such a large multitude across vast desert distances?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">And the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.</span>--The fact is here mentioned by way of anticipation (see <a href="/numbers/10-33.htm" title="And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.">Numbers 10:33</a>). The spot referred to is probably Kibroth-hattaavah, which may have been at the southernmost extremity of the wilderness of Paran. In <a href="/deuteronomy/1-19.htm" title="And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.">Deuteronomy 1:19</a> it is called "that great and terrible wilderness." This wilderness is supposed to have been bounded by the land of Canaan on the north, by the valley of Arabah on the east, and by the desert of Sinai on the south. Its western boundary appears to have been the wilderness of Shur, or rather the river, or brook, of Egypt (<span class= "ital">Wady-el-Arish</span>)<span class= "ital">, </span>which divides the wilderness into two parts, of which the western part is sometimes known as the wilderness of Shur. The sojourn of the Israelites was confined to the eastern part. (See Kurtz's <span class= "ital">History of the Old Covenant, </span>3 p. 221.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Took their journeys.</span> Literally, "marched according to their journeys" <span class="hebrew">לְמַסְּעֵיהֶם</span>. Septuagint, <span class="greek">τίαις αὐτῶν</span>, set forward with their baggage. <span class="cmt_word">And the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.</span> Taken by itself this would seem to apply to the first resting of the cloud and the first halt of the host after breaking up from "the wilderness of Sinai." It appears, however, from <a href="/numbers/12-16.htm">Numbers 12:16</a> that "the wilderness of Paran" was fully reached after leaving Hazeroth at the end of three days' journey from Sinai, nor would a shorter space of time suffice to carry the host across the mountain barrier of the Jebel et-Tih, which forms the clearly-marked southern limit of the desert plateau of Paran (see next note). Some critics have arbitrarily extended the limits of "the wilderness of Paran" so as to include the sandy waste between Sinai and the Jebel et-Tih, and therefore the very first halting-place of Israel. This, however, is unnecessary as well as arbitrary; for <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> verses 12, 13 are evidently in the nature of a summary, and the same subject is confessedly taken up again in verse 33, <span class="accented">sq.</span>; and <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> the departure from Sinai is expressly said to have been for a "three days' journey" (verse 33), which must mean that the march, although actually divided into three stages, was regarded as a single journey, because it brought them to their immediate destination in the wilderness of Paran. Here then is a plain reason for the statement in this verse: the cloud <span class="accented">did</span> indeed rest twice between the two wildernesses, but only so as to allow of a night's repose, not so as to break the continuity of the march. "The <span class="accented">wilderness of Paran."</span> Septuagint, <span class="greek">ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τοῦ φαράν</span>. This geographical expression is nowhere exactly defined in Holy Scripture, and the name itself has disappeared; for in spite of the resemblance in sound (a resemblance here, as in so many cases, wholly delusive), it seems to have no connection whatever with the Wady Feiran, the fertile valley at the base of Serbal, or with the town which once shared the name. All the allusions, however, in the Old Testament to Paran point to a district so clearly marked out, so deeply stamped with its own characteristics, by nature, that no mistake is possible. This district is now called et-Tih, <span class="accented">i.e.</span>, the wandering, and is still remembered in the traditions of the Arabs as the scene of the wanderings of the people of God. Little known, and never thoroughly explored, its main features are nevertheless unmistakable, and its boundaries sharply defined. Measuring about 150 miles in either direction, its southern frontier (now called the Jebel et-Tih) is divided by the broad sandy waste of er-Ramleh from the Sinaitic mountains and the Sinaitic peninsula properly so called; its northern mountain mass looks across the deep fissure of the Wady Murreh (or desert of Zin), some ten or fifteen miles broad, into er-Rachmah, the mountain of the Amorite, the southern extension of the plateau of Judah; on the east it fails abruptly down to the narrow beach of the Elanite Gulf, and to the Arabah; on the west alone it sinks slowly into the sandy desert of Shur, which separates it from the Mediterranean and from Egypt. Et-Tih is itself divided into nearly equal halves, by the Wady el Arish (or "river of Egypt"), which, rising on the northern slopes of the Jebel et-Tih, and running northwards through the whole plateau, turns off to the west and is lost in the desert of Shur. That the western half of the plateau went also under the name of Paran is evident from the history of Ishmael (see especially <a href="/genesis/21-21.htm">Genesis 21:21</a>; <a href="/genesis/25-18.htm">Genesis 25:18</a>), but it was through the eastern portion alone that the wanderings of the Israelites, so far as we can trace them, lay. This "wilderness of Paran" is indeed "a great and terrible wilderness" (<a href="/deuteronomy/1-9.htm">Deuteronomy 1:9</a>), lacking for the most part the precipitous grandeur of the granite mountains of Sinai, but lacking also their fertile valleys and numerous streams. A bare limestone or sandstone plateau, crossed by low ranges of hills, seamed with innumerable dry water-courses, and interspersed with large patches of sand and gravel, is what <span class="cmt_word">now</span> meets the eye of the traveler in this forsaken land. It is true that a good deal of rain falls at times, and that when it does fall vegetation appears with surprising rapidity and abundance; it is true also that the district has been persistently denuded of trees and shrubs for the sake of fuel. But whatever mitigations may have then existed, it is clear from the Bible itself that the country was then, as now, emphatically frightful (cf. <a href="/deuteronomy/1-19.htm">Deuteronomy 1:19</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/8-15.htm">Deuteronomy 8:15</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/32-10.htm">Deuteronomy 32:10</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6</a>). Something may be set, no doubt, to the account of rhetoric, and much may be allowed for variety of seasons. Even in Australia the very same district will appear at one time like the desolation of a thousand years, and in the very next year it will blossom as the rose. But at certain seasons at any rate et-Tih was (as it is) a "howling" wilderness, where the dreadful silence of a lifeless land was only broken by the nightly howling of unclean beasts who tracked the footsteps of the living in order to devour the carcasses of the dead. Perhaps so bad a country has never been attempted by any army in modern days, even by the Russian troops in Central Asia. Amongst the many Wadys which drain the uncertain rain-fall of the eastern half of et-Tih (and at the same time testify to a greater rain-fall in bygone ages), the most important is the Wady el Terafeh, which, also rising on the northern slopes of Jebel et-Tih, runs northwards and north-westwards, and finally opens into the Arabah. Towards its northern limit et-Tih changes its character for the worse. Here it rises into a precipitous quadrilateral of mountains, about forty miles square, not very lofty, but exceedingly steep and rugged, composed in great measure of dazzling masses of bare chalk or limestone, which glow as in a furnace beneath the summer sun. This mountain mass, now called the Azaimat, or mountain country of the Azazimeh, rising steeply from the rest of the plateau to the southward, is almost completely detached by deep depressions from the surrounding districts; at the north-west corner alone it is united by a short range of mountains with er-Rachmah, and so with the highlands of Southern Palestine. From this corner the Wady Murreh descends broad and deep towards the cast, forking at the eastern extremity towards the Arabah on the southeast, and towards the Dead Sea on the north. east. The interior of this inaccessible country has yet to be really explored, and it is the scanty nature of our present knowledge concerning it which, more than anything else, prevents us from following with any certainty the march of the Israelites as recorded in this book. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/numbers/10-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">and the Israelites</span><br /><span class="heb">בְנֵֽי־</span> <span class="translit">(ḇə·nê-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">set out</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּסְע֧וּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yis·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5265.htm">Strong's 5265: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from the Wilderness</span><br /><span class="heb">מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר</span> <span class="translit">(mim·miḏ·bar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pasture, a desert, speech</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Sinai,</span><br /><span class="heb">סִינָ֑י</span> <span class="translit">(sî·nāy)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5514.htm">Strong's 5514: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sinai -- the mountain where the law was given</span><br /><br /><span class="word">traveling from place to place</span><br /><span class="heb">לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(lə·mas·‘ê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4550.htm">Strong's 4550: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pulling up, breaking (camp), setting out, a journey</span><br /><br /><span class="word">until the cloud</span><br /><span class="heb">הֶעָנָ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(he·‘ā·nān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6051.htm">Strong's 6051: </a> </span><span class="str2">A cloud, the nimbus, thunder-cloud</span><br /><br /><span class="word">settled</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּשְׁכֹּ֥ן</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiš·kōn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7931.htm">Strong's 7931: </a> </span><span class="str2">To settle down, abide, dwell</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in the Wilderness</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(bə·miḏ·bar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pasture, a desert, speech</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Paran.</span><br /><span class="heb">פָּארָֽן׃</span> <span class="translit">(pā·rān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6290.htm">Strong's 6290: </a> </span><span class="str2">Paran -- a place in Sinai</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/numbers/10-12.htm">OT Law: Numbers 10:12 The children of Israel went forward according (Nu Num.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/numbers/10-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 10:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 10:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/numbers/10-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 10:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 10:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>