Exodus 40:38
For the cloude of the Lord was vpon the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their iourneyes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
37But if the cloude ascended not, then they iourneyed not till the day that it ascended.
Cross References
Exodus 13:22He tooke not away the pillar of ye cloude by day, nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
Numbers 9:16So it was alway: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
2 Samuel 7:6For I haue dwelt in no house since the time that I brought the children of Israel out of Egypt vnto this day, but haue walked in a tent and tabernacle.
Psalms 105:39He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.
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 →