During the second year, in the second month on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was lifted up above the tabernacle of the testimony.The Israelites traveled on from the Wilderness of Sinai, moving from one place to the next until the cloud stopped in the Wilderness of Paran.They set out for the first time according to the Lord’s command through Moses.
They set out from the mountain of the Lord on a three-day journey with the ark of the Lord’s covenant traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.