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Nehemiah 9:12

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10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

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BSB
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.
KJV
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
WEB
Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
ASV
Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou leddest them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
DARBY
And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
BLB
And by a pillar of cloud You led them by day, and by a pillar of fire by night, to give light for them, on the way that they should walk in it.
ÅB
Du ledet dem i en skystøtte om dagen og i en ildstøtte om natten for å Iyse for dem på den vei de skulle gå.
OTB
Med en skystøtte ledet du dem om dagen, og med en ildstøtte om natten for å lyse for dem veien de skulle gå.
B1930
Du ledet dem i en skystøtte om dagen og i en ildstøtte om natten for å Iyse for dem på den vei de skulde gå.

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  • Exodus 13:21–22

    And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

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  • Nehemiah 9:19

    Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

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  • Psalms 107:7

    And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

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  • Psalms 78:14

    In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

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  • Psalms 105:39

    He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

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  • Psalms 143:8

    Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

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  • Exodus 14:19–20

    And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:

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