Numbers 9:16
14 If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
15 On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
17 Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
18 At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
- KJV
- So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
- WEB
- So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- ASV
- So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- DARBY
- So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.
- BLB
- So it was continually: The cloud covered it [by day], then the appearance of fire by night.
- ÅB
- Slik var det alltid: Skyen dekket det[^1], og om natten var der som et ildskjær.
- OTB
- Dette var det vanlige mønsteret; skyen dekket det om dagen, og om natten så det ut som ild.
- B1930
- Således var det alltid: Skyen dekket det, og om natten var der som et ildskjær. / < om dagen.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 9:12
You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:1
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
Read in contextRevelation 21:3
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
Read in contextIsaiah 4:5–6
Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
Read in contextExodus 13:21–22
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
Read in contextPsalms 105:39
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:33
who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
Read in contextNumbers 9:18–22
At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.
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