John Gill Commentary Numbers 10:11

"And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony." — Numbers 10:11 (ASV)

And it came to pass, on the twentieth [day] of the second
month, in the second year
Which was the twentieth of the month Ijar, in the second year of the coming of the Israelites out of Egypt; who, as it appears from hence, compared with (Exodus 19:1) ; had been in the wilderness of Sinai twelve months wanting ten days; so Jarchi and other Jewish writers ^F13, with whom Aben Ezra agrees. He says it was near a year.

that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony ;
that part of the tabernacle where the ark of the testimony stood, even the most holy place, over which the cloud was, the token of the divine Presence, which it covered; but now was taken up from it, went up higher above it, and was a signal for the motion of the camps of Israel to set forward in their journey towards Canaan's land.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F13: Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 23. Abarbinel