Numbers 9:16

9:16 This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, ¹  and there was a fiery appearance by night.

Numbers 11:9

11:9 And when the dew came down ²  on the camp in the night, the manna fell ³  with it.)

Numbers 14:14

14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants ⁴  of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, ⁵  that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 22:20

22:20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”

[9:16]  ¹ tc The MT lacks the words “by day,” but a number of ancient versions have this reading (e.g., Greek, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., Latin Vulgate).

[11:9]  ² tn The temporal clause is constructed of the infinitive construct from יָרָד (yarad) with a temporal preposition, followed by the subjective genitive.

[11:9]  ³ tn Heb “came down.”

[14:14]  ³ tn The singular participle is to be taken here as a collective, representing all the inhabitants of the land.

[14:14]  ⁴ tn “Face to face” is literally “eye to eye.” It only occurs elsewhere in Isa 52:8. This expresses the closest communication possible.