Numbers 9:16
It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would appear like fire.
BSB
ASV
So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
KJV
So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
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The walk8
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Exodus 40:38For 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.
leads to
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
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2 Corinthians 5:19that 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.
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I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world,…
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Psalms 78:14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
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He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Nehemiah 9:12You 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.
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And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
