Numbers 9:16
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It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
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You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.