Numbers 10:12

Numbers 10:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
• New International Version (NIV)Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran.
• English Standard Version (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.
• New King James Version (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.

Context of Numbers 10:12

10You must make sounds with the trumpets on your happy days, too. And you must make sounds with the trumpets at your regular festivals and on the first days of your months. And you must make sounds with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over your friendship offerings. God will hear and he will remember you. I am the Lord your God.’ 11In the second year, in the second month, on the 20th day of the month, the cloud went up. It went away from God's Tent of Meeting. So the Israelites started to travel on their journey away from the Sinai desert. Then the cloud stopped in the desert called Paran. 13They started to travel for the first time, in the way that the Lord had told them to do, through Moses. 14The flag of the camp of Judah's tribe, started to travel first, with all their armies. And Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over all their armies.

Numbers 10:12 word by word

וַיִּסְע֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖ם מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר סִינָ֑י וַיִּשְׁכֹּ֥ן הֶעָנָ֖ן בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר פָּארָֽן׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the childrenבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• tookנָסַעnâsa‛ · to set outH5265
• their journeysמַסַּעmassa‛ · journeyH4550
• out of the wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
• of Sinaiסִינַיsîynay · (Wilderness of) SinaiH5514
• and the cloudעָנָן‛ânân · cloudH6051
• restedשָׁכַןshâkan · to dwellH7931
• of Paranפָּארָןpâ'rân · ParanH6290

Cross-references for Numbers 10:12

• Numbers 33:16They travelled from the Sinai desert and they made their camp at Kibroth-Hattaavah.
• Exodus 13:20The Israelites travelled from Succoth and they arrived at Etham. They put up their tents there, on the edge of the desert.
• Exodus 40:36The Israelites followed the cloud during all their journeys. Every time that the cloud rose up from the tabernacle, they would continue on their journey.
• Deuteronomy 1:19Then we left Sinai, as the Lord our God had commanded us to do. We travelled through the desert towards the hill country of the Amorites. You saw that the desert was very big and it made you very afraid. Finally, we arrived at Kadesh-Barnea.
• Numbers 1:1The Israelites were in the Sinai desert. It was the first day of the second month of the second year after they left Egypt. Moses was in the Tent of Meeting. The Lord said to Moses,
• Numbers 9:1The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai desert. The Israelites had left Egypt. It was the second year after the Israelites had left that country. It was the first month during that year. The Lord said,
• Numbers 33:15They travelled from Rephidim and they made their camp in the Sinai desert.
• Exodus 19:1After the Israelites left Rephidim, they went into the Sinai desert. The Israelites put up their tents in the desert, at the side of Sinai mountain. That happened on the first day of the third month since they came out of Egypt.
• Numbers 12:16After that, the people left Hazeroth. They went to the Paran desert and they put up their tents there.
• Numbers 13:3So Moses obeyed the Lord's command. He sent the men from the Paran desert into Canaan. Each man was a leader among the Israelites.
• Genesis 21:21He lived in the Paran wilderness. Hagar, his mother, found an Egyptian wife for him to marry.
• Deuteronomy 1:1These are the words that Moses spoke to all the Israelites. They were together in the desert on the east side of the Jordan River. This is in the Jordan Valley near Suph. It is between the towns called Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
• Deuteronomy 33:2He said this: ‘The Lord came from Sinai. He appeared to his people like the sun that rises over the hills of Edom. He shone on his people from Mount Paran. Thousands of angels came with him. In his right hand, he held his Law that burned with fire.
• 1 Samuel 25:1Then Samuel died. All the Israelites met together and they were very sad. Then they buried Samuel at his home in Ramah. David went down to the Paran desert.
• Habakkuk 3:3God is coming from Teman! The Holy God is coming from Paran mountain. Selah. His beautiful power covers the whole sky! People praise him all over the earth!

Commentaries on Numbers 10:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12The cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran - This was three days' journey from the wilderness of Sinai, (see Numbers 10:33;), and the people had three stations; the first at Kibroth-hattaavah, the second at Hazeroth, Numbers 11:35, and the third in the wilderness of Paran, see Numbers 12:16. But it is extremely difficult to determine these journeyings with any degree of exactness; and we are often at a loss to know whether the place in question was in a…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12The wilderness of Paran - See Genesis 14:6 note. The wilderness is mentioned here by anticipation. The earliest halting-places, Kibroth-hattaavah and Hazeroth, were not within its limits Numbers 11:35; Numbers 12:16.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-28Verses 11-28 After the Israelites had continued nearly a year at mount Sinai, and all was settled respecting their future worship, they began their march to Canaan. True religion begins with the knowledge of the holy law of God, and humiliation for sin, but we must go on towards perfection, in acquaintance with Christ and his gospel, and those effectual encouragements, motives, and assistances to holiness, which it proposes. They took their journey…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12The Israelites traveled to the wilderness of Paran. This region was dry and harsh. It was either arid or semi-arid, which means it received very little rain. The wilderness of Paran lay in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula. It was south of the Negev and west of the Dead Sea and the Arabah Rift (a long valley that runs from the Dead Sea southward; compare Genesis 21:21).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. wilderness of Paran--It stretched from the base of the Sinaitic group, or from Et-Tyh, over that extensive plateau to the southwestern borders of Palestine.Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 10:12

• Cloud
• Israel
• Paran
• Sinai

In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Paran
• Sinai
• Sinai, or Sinai
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Sinai, Horeb
• Children of Israel
• Concerning
• Depart

Commentaries on Numbers 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings