Exodus 40:34

For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day,.... Or over it (g), it covered it, when it abode upon it, and rested; and stood on high over it when it moved and the people journeyed:

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On the distinction between the tent as the outer shelter and the tabernacle as the dwelling-place of Yahweh, which is very clear in these verses, see Exo 26:1 note. The glory appeared as a light…

Then a cloud covered the tent - Thus God gave his approbation of the work; and as this was visible, so it was a sign to all the people that Jehovah was among them.

And the glory of the Lord filled the…

As when, in the creation, God had finished this earth, which he designed for man's habitation, he made man, and put him in possession of it, so when Moses had finished the tabernacle, which was…

The cloud (see on Exo 13:21-22) now takes up its abode on the Tent of Meeting (cf. Num 9:15 P), and the glory (see on Exo 16:10) of Jehovah fills the Dwelling (vv.34 f.). Ever afterwards, through the…