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.
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Gill's Exposition
So it was alway,.... Night and day, as long as the people of Israel were in the wilderness, see Exo 13:21,
the cloud covered it by day: the phrase, "by day", is not in the text, but is easily and…
Barnes' Notes
The cloud ... - The phenomenon first appeared at the Exodus itself, Exo 13:21-22. The cloud did not cover the whole structure, but the “tent of the testimony,” i. e. the enclosure which contained the…
We have here the history of the cloud; not a natural history: who knows the balancings of the clouds? but a divine history of a cloud that was appointed to be the visible sign and symbol of God's…
Cambridge Bible
it used to be upon the Dwelling]om elsewhere used only of a small number (see on Deu 4:27) so that the suggested let his men be numerous(cp. LXX) is improbable. In Gen 49:4 Reuben though the firstborn…
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