Numbers 9:15

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant decrees. At evening the cloud was over the tabernacle. It appeared like fire until morning.

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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

14If a stranger lives among you and keeps the Passover in Yahweh's honor, he must keep it and do all he commands, keeping the rules of the Passover, and obeying the laws for it. You must have the same law for the foreigner and for all who have been born in the land.”

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

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Cross References

Exodus 14:19The angel of God, who went before the Israelites, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and went to stand behind them.

Exodus 33:9Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the tent entrance, and Yahweh would speak with Moses.

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

Exodus 40:35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and because Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.

Numbers 10:34Yahweh's cloud was over them by daylight as they journeyed.

Numbers 17:7Then Moses deposited the staffs before Yahweh in the tent of the covenant decrees.

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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