³⁷ but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up.

¹⁹ Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the Israelites would keep the charge of the Lord and would not set out.^{(A) 20} Sometimes the cloud would remain a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the Lord they would remain in camp; then according to the command of the Lord they would set out. ²¹ Sometimes the cloud would remain from evening until morning, and when the cloud lifted in the morning, they would set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they would set out. ²² Whether it was two days or a month or a longer time that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, resting upon it, the Israelites would remain in camp and would not set out, but when it lifted they would set out.^(B)