Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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

King James 2000

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

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 at their departing: for they were afraid of them. 39 He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season. 40 At their desire, there came quails; and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:12

and leddest them in the daytime in a cloudy pillar; and on the night season in a pillar of fire, to show them light in the way that they went.

Psalm 78:14

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

Isaiah 4:5

Moreover upon all the dwellings of the hill of Zion and upon their whole congregation, shall the LORD provide a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for all their glory shall be preserved.

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: that they might go both by day and night.

Exodus 14:24

And in the morning watch, the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians out of the fiery and cloudy pillar, and troubled their host;

Numbers 9:15-22

And the same day that the habitation was reared up, a cloud covered it on high upon the tabernacle of witness: and at even there was upon the habitation, as it were the similitude of fire until the morning.

Nehemiah 9:19

yet thou forsookest them not in the wilderness, according to thy great mercy. And the cloudy pillar departed not from them in the daytime to lead them the way, neither the pillar of fire in the night season, to show them light in the way that they went.

1 Corinthians 10:1-2

Brethren I would not that ye should be ignorant of this, how that our fathers were all under a cloud, and all passed through the sea,

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