Quotes About Journey

Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.

Then the divisions of the camp of Reuben set out under their standard, with Elizur son of Shedeur in command.

Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

Next, the divisions of the camp of Ephraim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihud in command.

Finally, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for all units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.

This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Mosesí father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ëI will give it to you.í Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ëWhy did we ever leave Egypt?í”

Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.

Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a dayís journey in every direction around the camp.

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.

After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

And the LORD said to Moses,

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,