Exodus 13:22

The tall cloud did not leave them. It was always in front of them, as a bright white cloud in the daytime and like a fire at night.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

In Context

21When they traveled during the daytime, Yahweh went in front of them in a tall white cloud to show them the way. During the night, he went in front of them in a tall cloud that looked like a fire. By doing that, he enabled them to travel in the daytime and also at nighttime.

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Cross References

Psalms 121:5Yahweh watches over us; he is like the shade [MET] that protects us from the sun.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 13:18-22

The Pillar of Fire and Fire. ( b. c. 1491.) 17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly… Read the whole commentary →

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