Numbers 9:15

And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

In Context

14And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.

16And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:19Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back:

Exodus 33:9And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with Moses.

Exodus 40:17So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up.

Exodus 40:35So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord.

Numbers 10:34And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents.

Numbers 17:7And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of witness.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 9:2-15

The Law of the Passover. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they… Read the whole commentary →

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