Numbers 10:14

10:14 The standard ¹  of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Numbers 10:34

10:34 ²  And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they traveled ³  from the camp.

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¹ sn The “standard” (דֶּגֶל, degel) was apparently some kind of a symbol put up on a pole to signify the tribal hosts. R. de Vaux thought it simply referred to a pole or a mast, but that would not distinguish tribes (Ancient Israel, 226-27).

² tc The scribes sensed that there was a dislocation with vv. 34-36, and so they used the inverted letters nun (נ) as brackets to indicate this.

³ tn The adverbial clause of time is composed of the infinitive construct with a temporal preposition and a suffixed subjective genitive.