Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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 happy when they left, for they were afraid of them. 39 He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night. 40 They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:12

You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

Psalm 78:14

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

Isaiah 4:5

Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over its convocations a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flame of fire by night; indeed a canopy will accompany the Lord's glorious presence.

Exodus 13:21-22

Now the Lord was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.

Exodus 14:24

In the morning watch the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

Numbers 9:15-22

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle -- the tent of the testimony -- and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.

Nehemiah 9:19

"Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

1 Corinthians 10:1-2

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

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