³⁶ In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out;^{(A) 37} but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted. ³⁸ So the cloud^(B) of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.

The Israelites Leave Sinai

¹¹ On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year,^(A) the cloud lifted^(B) from above the tabernacle of the covenant law.^(C)

¹² Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran.^(A)

³³ So they set out^(A) from the mountain of the Lord and traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of the Lord^(B) went before them during those three days to find them a place to rest.^(C)

³⁴ The cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the camp.^(A)

Psalm 80^[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm.