Numbers 10:33 “So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD,…”

Numbers 10:33

So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.

World English Bible

They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three days’ journey. The ark of the LORD’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

American Standard Version

And they set forward from the mount of Jehovah three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.

Geneva Bible 1599

So they departed from the mount of the Lord, three dayes iourney: and the Arke of the couenant of the Lord went before them in the three dayes iourney, to searche out a resting place for them.

Darby Translation

And they set forward from the mountain of Jehovah [and went] three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting-place for them.

Young's Literal Translation

And they journey from the mount of Jehovah a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is journeying before them the journey of three days, to spy out for them a resting-place;

Bible in Basic English

So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;

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Cross references

“the mount”

Exodus 3:1 Exodus 19:3 Exodus 24:17 Exodus 24:18

Exodus 3:1 · BSB

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Exodus 19:3 · BSB

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:

Exodus 24:17 · BSB

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

Exodus 24:18 · BSB

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

“the ark”

Deuteronomy 9:9 Deuteronomy 31:26 Joshua 4:7 Judges 20:27 1 Samuel 4:3 Jeremiah 3:16

Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 31:26 · BSB

“Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

Joshua 4:7 · BSB

you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites f…

Judges 20:27 · BSB

And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,

1 Samuel 4:3 · BSB

When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with…

Jeremiah 3:16 · BSB

“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor wi…

“went before”

Deuteronomy 1:33 Joshua 3:2–6 Joshua 3:11–17 Ezekiel 20:6 Exodus 33:14 Exodus 33:15

Deuteronomy 1:33 · BSB

who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

Joshua 3:2–6 · BSB

After three days the officers went through the camp

Joshua 3:11–17 · BSB

Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.

Ezekiel 20:6 · BSB

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

Exodus 33:14 · BSB

And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33:15 · BSB

“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.

“a resting place”

Psalm 95:11 Isaiah 28:12 Isaiah 66:1 Jeremiah 6:16 Matthew 11:28–30 Hebrews 4:3–11

Psalm 95:11 · BSB

So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

Isaiah 28:12 · BSB

to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

Isaiah 66:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?

Jeremiah 6:16 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

Matthew 11:28–30 · BSB

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Hebrews 4:3–11 · BSB

Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of th…

Also

Numbers 10:12

Numbers 10:12 · BSB

and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

32If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

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