Numbers 9:23

9:23 At the commandment of the Lord they camped, and at the commandment of the Lord they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the Lord according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority ¹  of Moses.

Numbers 9:18

9:18 At the commandment ²  of the Lord the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the Lord they would make camp; as long as ³  the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp.

Numbers 9:20

9:20 When ⁴  the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, ⁵  they remained camped according to the Lord’s commandment, ⁶  and according to the Lord’s commandment they would journey.

Numbers 14:41

14:41 But Moses said, “Why ⁷  are you now transgressing the commandment ⁸  of the Lord? It will not succeed!

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¹ tn Heb “hand.”

² tn Heb “at the mouth of” (so also in vv. 20, 23).

³ 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.”

⁴ tn The sentence uses וְיֵשׁ (vÿyesh) followed by a noun clause introduced with אֲשֶׁר (’asher) to express an existing situation; it is best translated as an adverbial clause of time: “and it was when the cloud was….”

⁵ tn The word “number” is in apposition to the word “days” to indicate that their stay was prolonged for quite a few days.

⁶ tn Heb “mouth of the Lord.”

⁷ tn The line literally has, “Why is this [that] you are transgressing….” The demonstrative pronoun is enclitic; it brings the force of “why in the world are you doing this now?”

⁸ tn Heb “mouth.”