Discovery BoxNumbers 9:17 
Context9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up 1 from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place 2 the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.
Numbers 32:17
Context32:17 but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness 3 and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against 4 the inhabitants of the land.
1 tn The verb in this initial temporal clause is the Niphal infinitive construct.
2 tn Heb “in the place where it settled there”; the relative clause modifies the noun “place,” and the resumptive adverb completes the related idea – “which it settled there” means “where it settled.”
3 tn The MT has חֻשִׁים (khushim); the verbal root is חוּשׁ (khush, “to make haste” or “hurry”). But in light of the Greek and Latin Vulgate the Hebrew should probably be emended to חֲמֻשִׁים (hamushim), a qal passive participle meaning “in battle array.” See further BDB 301 s.v. I חוּשׁ, BDB 332 s.v. חֲמֻשִׁים; HALOT 300 s.v. I חושׁ, חישׁ; HALOT 331 s.v. I חמשׁ.
4 tn Heb “from before.”
