Numbers 9:18

9:18 At the commandment 1  of the Lord the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the Lord they would make camp; as long as 2  the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp.

Numbers 9:21-22

9:21 And when 3  the cloud remained only 4  from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up 5  the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled. 9:22 Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, 6  that the cloud prolonged its stay 7  over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; 8  but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

Numbers 30:11

30:11 and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.

Numbers 30:14

30:14 But if her husband remains completely silent 9  about her from day to day, he thus confirms all her vows or all her obligations which she is under; he confirms them because he remained silent about when he heard them.

1 tn Heb “at the mouth of” (so also in vv. 20, 23).

2 tn Heb “all the days of – that the cloud settled over the tabernacle.” “All” is the adverbial accusative of time telling how long they camped in one spot – all. The word is then qualified by the genitive of the thing measured – “all of the days” – and this in turn is qualified by a noun clause functioning as a genitive after “days of.”

3 tn The construction is the same in the preceding verse.

4 tn “Only” is supplied to reflect the contrast between the two verses.

5 tn The construction in this half of the verse uses two vav (ו) consecutive clauses. The first is subordinated to the second as a temporal clause: “when…then….”

6 tn The MT has אוֹ־יָמִים (’o-yamim). Most translators use “or a year” to interpret this expression in view of the sequence of words leading up to it, as well as in comparison with passages like Judg 17:10 and 1 Sam 1:3 and 27:7. See also the uses in Gen 40:4 and 1 Kgs 17:15. For the view that it means four months, see F. S. North, “Four Month Season of the Hebrew Bible,” VT 11 (1961): 446-48.

7 tn In the Hebrew text this sentence has a temporal clause using the preposition with the Hiphil infinitive construct of אָרַךְ (’arakh) followed by the subjective genitive, “the cloud.” But this infinitive is followed by the infinitive construct לִשְׁכֹּן (lishkon), the two of them forming a verbal hendiadys: “the cloud made long to stay” becomes “the cloud prolonged its stay.”

8 tn Heb “and they would not journey”; the clause can be taken adverbially, explaining the preceding verbal clause.

9 tn The sentence uses the infinitive absolute to strengthen the idea.