Numbers 9:22 - Exposition

Or a year. Rather, "days" ( yamin ) : an undefined period ( Genesis 4:3 ; Genesis 40:4 ), often equivalent to a year (Le 25:29). It is not known whether or on what occasion the Israelites actually remained in camp for a year. But it is evident that this passage must have been written after the wanderings were over, because it is a kind of retrospect of the whole period as regards one important feature of it. It may of course have been added here by the hand of Moses on the eve of entry upon the promised land: or it may have been added by a later hand, perhaps that of Ezra when he revised these books (see the Introduction).