He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
Parallel translations
- KJV He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
- BSB He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
- NKJV He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.
- NASB He spread out a cloud as a covering, And fire to illumine by night.
- NLT The Lord spread a cloud above them as a covering and gave them a great fire to light the darkness.
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- Neh 9:12Moreover, 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.
- Ps 78:14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
- Isa 4:5Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
- Neh 9:19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Exod 14:24In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
- Exod 13:21–22Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- 1 Cor 10:1–2Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
- Num 9:15–22On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
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