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Exodus 40:36

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

KJV

Nubes quippe Domini incubabat per diem tabernaculo, et ignis in nocte, videntibus cunctis populis Israël per cunctas mansiones suas.

Vulgate

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys:

ASV

וּ/בְ/הֵעָל֤וֹת הֶֽ/עָנָן֙ מֵ/עַ֣ל הַ/מִּשְׁכָּ֔ן יִסְע֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בְּ/כֹ֖ל מַסְעֵי/הֶֽם

Hebrew

For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
הֶ֖ם
hm
noun · 12×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יִּסְע֖וּ
ys'v
verb · 145×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מִּשְׁכָּ֖ן
mshkn
noun · 138×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עָנָ֖ן
'nn
noun · 87×

Theophany

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§697Cloud and light. These two images occur together in the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. In the theophanies of the Old Testament, the cloud, now obscure, now luminous, reveals the living and saving God, while veiling the transcendence of his glory - with Moses on Mount Sinai,43 at the tent of meeting,44 and during the wandering in the desert,45 and with Solomon at the dedicat…

Cross-references

  • Exod 13:21 — And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
  • Neh 9:19 — Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew the
  • Num 9:17 — And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
  • Num 9:17 — And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
  • Num 9:22 — Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken
  • Num 10:12 — And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.