Numbers 1:1 gives the starting date at Sinai (first day, second month); here on the twentieth day, the cloud lifts – marking the end of their stay.

Numbers 9:17-23 explains the cloud's guidance pattern; here is the first time it lifts to begin the journey.

Numbers 1:51 gives instructions for Levites when the tabernacle moves; here the cloud lifts, initiating that movement.

Numbers 33:16 records the departure from Sinai — the very event initiated by the cloud lifting here.

Numbers 9:11 commands a second Passover on the 14th of the second month; just six days later, the cloud lifts on the 20th.

Numbers 9:1 records the Passover command in the first month of the second year; here in the second month, the journey begins.

In Numbers 9:5, the Passover is kept on the 14th day of the first month; here, just over a month later, the cloud lifts.

Deuteronomy 1:6-8 records God's command to leave Horeb, the event triggered by the cloud lifting in Numbers 10:11.

Exodus 40:36 describes the same cloud guidance – when it lifts, they journey – which is first enacted here in Numbers 10:11.

Exodus 19:1 dates Israel's arrival at Sinai; Numbers 10:11 records the cloud lifting to depart—together they bookend the stay at Sinai.

Exodus 40:2 commands the tabernacle's erection on the first day of the first month; here the cloud lifts to begin moving it.

Deuteronomy 1:33 recalls the cloud guiding Israel — the same cloud that lifted here to lead them.