Exodus 40:37

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but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up.

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  • Num 9:19-22 : 19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey. 20 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD’s commandment, and according to the LORD’s commandment they would journey. 21 And when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled. 22 Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.
  • Ps 31:15 : 15 You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me.

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  • Exod 40:34-36
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    91%

    34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

    35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

    36But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;

  • Num 9:15-23
    9 verses
    85%

    15The Leading of the Lord On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle– the tent of the testimony– and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.

    16This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

    17Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the Israelites would begin their journey; and in whatever place the cloud settled, there the Israelites would make camp.

    18At the commandment of the LORD the Israelites would begin their journey, and at the commandment of the LORD they would make camp; as long as the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp.

    19When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the LORD and did not journey.

    20When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD’s commandment, and according to the LORD’s commandment they would journey.

    21And when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled.

    22Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

    23At the commandment of the LORD they camped, and at the commandment of the LORD they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the LORD according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.

  • Exod 40:38
    85%

    38For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be on it at night, in plain view of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

  • Exod 13:20-22
    3 verses
    80%

    20They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

    21Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.

    22He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.

  • Num 10:33-34
    2 verses
    80%

    33So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.

    34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

  • Num 10:11-13
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    75%

    11The Journey From Sinai to Kadesh On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony.

    12So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the desert of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.

    13Judah Begins the Journey This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the LORD, by the authority of Moses.

  • Ps 78:14
    74%

    14He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.

  • Num 14:44
    74%

    44But they dared to go up to the crest of the hill, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed from the camp.

  • Exod 33:15
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    15And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

  • Deut 1:33
    73%

    33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.

  • Exod 24:18
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    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Neh 9:19
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    19“Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

  • Neh 9:12
    73%

    12You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

  • Exod 14:19-20
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    72%

    19The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

    20It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.

  • Exod 24:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

    16The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

  • Num 10:28
    71%

    28These were the traveling arrangements of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled.

  • Num 33:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Wanderings from Egypt to Sinai These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

    2Moses recorded their departures according to their journeys, by the commandment of the LORD; now these are their journeys according to their departures.

  • Num 14:14
    71%

    14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10
    70%

    10Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the LORD’s temple.

  • Exod 33:10
    70%

    10When all the people would see the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people, each one at the entrance of his own tent, would rise and worship.

  • Num 10:17
    70%

    17Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.

  • Num 16:42
    70%

    42When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting– and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

  • Exod 40:17
    70%

    17So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month, in the second year.

  • Num 2:17
    69%

    17The Tribe in the Center“Then the tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites will travel in the middle of the camps. They will travel in the same order as they camped, each in his own place under his standard.

  • Deut 31:15
    69%

    15The LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.

  • Num 4:5
    69%

    5When it is time for the camp to journey, Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

  • Exod 40:19
    69%

    19Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Num 10:21
    69%

    21And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.

  • Num 14:40
    69%

    40And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying,“Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the LORD commanded, for we have sinned.”

  • Num 12:15
    69%

    15So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.

  • Deut 1:40
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    40But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

  • Num 4:21
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    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses: