Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He spread a cloud as a covering
and gave a fire to light up the night.

International Standard Version

He spread out a cloud for a cover, and fire for light at night.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night.

Amplified


The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day],
And a fire to illumine the night.

Bible in Basic English

A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

He spread a cloud for covering, and fire to lighten the night

Lexham Expanded Bible

He spread out a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light at night.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season.

NET Bible

He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

He spread out a cloud as a covering, And fire, to give light by night,

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.

Interlinear

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

מסך 
Macak 
Usage: 25

and fire
אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

to give light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 42

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Work On Behalf Of Israel

38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them. 39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night. 40 The people asked, and he brought quail, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:12

Moreover you led them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

Psalm 78:14

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

Isaiah 4:5

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a covering.

Exodus 13:21-22

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

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

Numbers 9:15-22

And on the day that the tabernacle was raised up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at evening there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

Nehemiah 9:19

Yet you in your manifold mercies forsook them not in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

1 Corinthians 10:1-2

Moreover, brethren, I want not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

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