Exodus 40:36
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
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Adam Clarke
When the cloud was taken up - The subject of these three last verses has been very largely explained in the notes on Exo 13:21, to which, as well as to the general remarks on that chapter, the reader…
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 tenses are throughout frequentative ( used to go onward, used not to journey, used to be), describing what was the case habitually during the journeyings in the wilderness. Cf. Num 9:16-23; Num…
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