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Numbers 9:15–16

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The Cloud Above the Tabernacle

15On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law,x was set up,y the cloudz covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.a 16That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.b

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  1. xSee Ex 38:21
  2. ySee Ex 26:30
  3. zSee Ex 33:16
  4. aEx 13:21
  5. bSee Ex 40:38

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and it appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning. It remained that way continuously: the cloud would cover it, appearing like fire at night.

NLTNew Living Translation

On the day the Tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered it. But from evening until morning the cloud over the Tabernacle looked like a pillar of fire. This was the regular pattern—at night the cloud that covered the Tabernacle had the appearance of fire.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And on a day setting up the tabernacle, the cloud covered the tent of the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; in the evening it was on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire until morning. So it was continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night.

KJV 1900King James Version

And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.