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It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tent of the testimony.
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A Year of Preparation
Commentators note the specific date, calculating that Israel had camped at Mount Sinai for nearly a full year (eleven months and nineteen days). This was not wasted time; it was a crucial period of receiving the Law, building the Tabernacle, and being organized as a nation before God led them onward.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
At this point begins the second great division of the book, extending to the close of Numbers 14:0. The remaining verses of the present chapter nar…
19th Century
Anglican
On the twentieth day of the second month. —It appears from Exodus 19:1 that the Israelites encamped before Mount Sinai in the thir…
16th Century
Protestant
And it came to pass on the twentieth day. Moses records that after leaving Mount Sinai, the camp was first pitched in the wilderness of Pa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it came to pass, on the twentieth [day] of the secondmonth, in the second year Wh…
After the Israelites had remained for nearly a year at Mount Sinai, and all was settled regarding their future worship, they began their march to C…
