Discovery BoxNumbers 9:17-18 
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. 9:18 At the commandment 3 of the Lord the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the Lord they would make camp; as long as 4 the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp.
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 Heb “at the mouth of” (so also in vv. 20, 23).
4 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.”
