Numbers 4:20

4:20 But the Kohathites ¹  are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

Numbers 16:42

16:42 When the community assembled ²  against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and ³  the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

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¹ tn In the Hebrew text the verse has as the subject “they,” but to avoid confusion the antecedent has been clarified in the translation.

² tn The temporal clause is constructed with the temporal indicator (“and it was”) followed by the Niphal infinitive construct and preposition.

³ tn The verse uses וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and behold”). This is the deictic particle – it is used to point things out, suddenly calling attention to them, as if the reader were there. The people turned to look toward the tent – and there is the cloud!