Numbers 9:17

9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up ¹  from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place ²  the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

Numbers 14:14

14:14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants ³  of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, ⁴  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.

[9:17]  ¹ tn The verb in this initial temporal clause is the Niphal infinitive construct.

[9:17]  ² tn Heb “in the place where it settled there”; the relative clause modifies the noun “place,” and the resumptive adverb completes the related idea – “which it settled there” means “where it settled.”

[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.