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Numbers 9:16

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

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In The King James Version

So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

In Context

15On 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.

17Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, the people of Israel would set out on their journey. Wherever the cloud stopped, the people would camp.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:21Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them on the way. By night he went in a pillar of fire to give them light. In this way they could travel by day and by night.

Numbers 9:18At Yahweh's command, the people of Israel would travel, and at his command, they would camp. While the cloud stopped over the tabernacle, they would stay in their camp.

Nehemiah 9:12You led them by a pillar of cloud during by day, and by a pillar of fire during the night to light the way for them to go.

Psalms 78:14In the daytime he led them with a cloud 1 and all the night with the light of fire. 1

Isaiah 4:5Then over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, 1 Yahweh will create cloud and smoke by day, 1 and the shining of a flaming fire by night; 1 it will be a canopy over all the glory. 1

2 Corinthians 5:19That is, in Christ God is reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them. He is entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 9:16-23

The Pillar of Cloud and Fire. ( b. c. 1490.) 15 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. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of… Read the whole commentary →

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