Exodus 40:38

For a cloud was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before all Israel, in all their journeyings.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

In Context

37And if the cloud went not up, they did not prepare to depart, till the day when the cloud went up.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:22And the pillar of cloud failed not by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before all the people.

Numbers 9:16So it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

2 Samuel 7:6For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt to this day, but I have been walking in a lodge and in a tent,

Psalms 105:39And was polluted with their works; 1 And they went a-whoring with their own devices. 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 40:35-38

The Tabernacle Filled with Glory. ( b. c. 1491.) 34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: 37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken… Read the whole commentary →

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