Numbers 9:16 “It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle…”

Numbers 9:16

It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

So it was alway: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Darby Translation

So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.

Young's Literal Translation

so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night.

Bible in Basic English

And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.

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Cross references

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

Nehemiah 9:12 Numbers 9:18–22 Exodus 40:38 Deuteronomy 1:33 Nehemiah 9:19 Psalm 78:14

Nehemiah 9:12 · 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.

Numbers 9:18–22 · BSB

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.

Exodus 40:38 · BSB

For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.

Deuteronomy 1:33 · 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.

Nehemiah 9:19 · BSB

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

Psalm 78:14 · BSB

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15On 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.

17Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.

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