Numbers 9:16
“So it was always: the cloud couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.”
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Numbers 9:16 Context
14And if a stranger shall soiourne among you, and will keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the Passeouer, and according to the maner thereof, so shall he doe: ye shall haue one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was borne in the land. 15¶ And on the day that the Tabernacle was reared vp, the cloud couered the Tabernacle, namely the Tent of the Testimony: and at Euen there was vpon the Tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, vntill the morning. 16So it was always: the cloud couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17And when the cloud was taken vp from the Tabernacle, then after that, the children of Israel iourneyed, and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. 18At the commandement of the Lord the children of Israel iourneied, and at the commandement of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode vpon the Tabernacle, they rested in the tents.
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So it was alway: the cloud covered it [by day], and the appearance of fire by night.
- King James Version
So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it {by day,} and the appearance of fire by night.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.
- Basic English Bible
So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.
- Darby Bible
So it was always; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
- Webster's Bible
So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- World English Bible
so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night.
- Youngs Literal Bible
So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible