Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

It remained that way continuously: the cloud would cover it, appearing like fire at night.

International Standard Version

It was so continuously there was a cloud covering by day, and a fire cloud appeared at night.

A Conservative Version

So it was always: 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.

Amplified

So it was continuously; the cloud covered it by day, and 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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

So shall it be always: the cloud shall cover it, and the appearance of fire by night

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

So it was continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire [by] night.

Modern King James verseion

So it was always. The cloud covered it, and it looked like fire by night.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And so it was always, that the cloud covered it by day, and the similitude of fire by night.

NET Bible

This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Thus, came it to pass continually, the cloud, covered it, - and an appearance of fire, by night;

Webster

So it was always; 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the cloud
ענן 
`anan 
Usage: 87

כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

it by day, and the appearance
מראה 
Mar'eh 
Usage: 104

of fire
אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Cloud And The Fire

15 Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle, until morning. 16 So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.


Cross References

Nehemiah 9:12

“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light for them the way
In which they were to go.

Exodus 13:21-22

The Lord was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.

Exodus 40:38

For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.

Numbers 9:18-22

At the command of the Lord the sons of Israel would set out, and at the command of the Lord they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped.

Deuteronomy 1:33

who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.

Nehemiah 9:19

You, in Your great compassion,
Did not forsake them in the wilderness;
The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.

Psalm 78:14

Then He led them with the cloud by day
And all the night with a light of fire.

Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud for a covering,
And fire to illumine by night.

Isaiah 4:5-6

then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

1 Corinthians 10:1

For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

2 Corinthians 5:19

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,

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