Exodus 40:38

For Yahweh's cloud was over the tabernacle by day, and his fire was over it by night, in plain view of all the people of Israel throughout their journey.

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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

37But if the cloud did not rise up from the tabernacle, then the people would not travel. They would stay until the day that it was lifted up.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:22Yahweh did not take away from before the people the daytime pillar of cloud or the nighttime pillar of fire.

Numbers 9:16It continued that way. The cloud covered the tabernacle and appeared like fire at night.

2 Samuel 7:6For I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought up the people of Israel out of Egypt until this present day; instead, I have been moving about in a tent, a tabernacle.

Psalms 105:39He spread a cloud for a covering 1 and made a fire to light up the night. 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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