Deuteronomy 1:33

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³¹ and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

³² But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

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.

³⁴ When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,

³⁵ “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
WEB: who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
ASV: who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
DARBY: who went in the way before you, to search you out a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
BLB: who went before you⁺ on the way to search out for you⁺ a place to pitch your⁺ tents in the fire by night, and to show you⁺ the way in which you⁺ should go in the cloud by day.

ÅB: han som gikk foran dere på veien for å søke ut leirplass for dere, om natten i en ild, så dere kunne se den vei dere skulle gå, og om dagen i en sky.
OTB: som gikk foran dere på reisen, for å finne steder for dere å slå leir, i ild om natten og i en sky om dagen, for å vise dere veien dere skulle gå.
B1930: han som gikk foran eder på veien for å søke ut leirplass for eder, om natten i en ild, så I kunde se den vei I skulde gå, og om dagen i en sky.

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Numbers 10:33
So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
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Psalms 78:14
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
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Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
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Numbers 9:15–22
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.
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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.
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Exodus 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.
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Zechariah 2:5
For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
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Numbers 10:11–12
On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
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