Exodus 40:36
in Exodus 40Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.
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ASV
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys:
KJV
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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This verse in Exodus 40
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle
on Exodus 40:36-37
The pillar that led Israel out of Egypt at Exodus 13:21 now rests on the tent and sets the pace of the camp. They move when it lifts and they stay while it stays, and the text gives no schedule and no distance. Numbers 9:15-23 works the arrangement out at length and says they kept the charge of the Lord whether the cloud stayed two days, a month or a year.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle,....
While the cloud continued on the tabernacle, they rested; when it removed, they removed and followed it, as being purely under divine direction. This is spoken of more fully, Num. ix.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle--In journeying through the sandy, trackless deserts of the East, the use of torches, exhibiting a cloud of smoke by day and of fire by night, has been resorted to from time immemorial.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase
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 is requested immediately to refer. See Clarke’s note on Exo 13:21.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְהֵעָל֤וֹת | uvehealot | and when was taken up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| הֶֽעָנָן֙ | heanan | the cloud | H6051 → | 87 times |
| מֵעַ֣ל | meal | from over | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן | hamishkan | the tabernacle | H4908 → | 139 times |
| יִסְע֖וּ | yisu | they set out | H5265 → | 146 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| בְּכֹ֖ל | bekhol | in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃ | maseihem | journeyings their | H4550 → | 12 times |
וּבְהֵעָל֤וֹתand when was taken up
uvehealotH5927 →890 times
הֶֽעָנָן֙the cloud
heananH6051 →87 times
מֵעַ֣לfrom over
mealH5921 →5755 times
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ןthe tabernacle
hamishkanH4908 →139 times
יִסְע֖וּthey set out
yisuH5265 →146 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
בְּכֹ֖לin all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
מַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃journeyings their
maseihemH4550 →12 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Corinthians 10:1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
it leads to
- Exodus 14:29
But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
- Nehemiah 9:11–12
You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
- Psalms 78:13–14
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
- Psalms 106:7–11
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 105:39
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
- Exodus 14:29
Through
Numbers 9:17Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
it leads to
- Exodus 40:36–38
Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.
- Exodus 40:36–38
Through
Nehemiah 9:19You 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…
it leads to
- Psalms 106:45
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Nehemiah 9:27
So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You…
- Psalms 106:45
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.