And it came to pass on the twentieth[ day] of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.