Numbers 9:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 9:12 : 12 You 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.
  • Neh 9:19 : 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.
  • Ps 78:14 : 14 He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.
  • Ps 105:39 : 39 He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.
  • Isa 4:5-6 : 5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over its convocations a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flame of fire by night; indeed a canopy will accompany the LORD’s glorious presence. 6 By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.
  • 1 Cor 10:1 : 1 Learning from Israel’s Failures For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,
  • 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.
  • Rev 21:3 : 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:“Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.
  • Exod 13:21-22 : 21 Now 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. 22 He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
  • Exod 40:38 : 38 For 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.
  • Num 9:18-22 : 18 At 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. 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.
  • Deut 1:33 : 33 the 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 9:15
    90%

    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.

  • Exod 40:34-38
    5 verses
    84%

    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;

    37but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up.

    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.

  • Num 9:17-23
    7 verses
    83%

    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 13:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Ps 78:14
    79%

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

  • Neh 9:12
    78%

    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.

  • Ps 105:39
    77%

    39He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.

  • Num 10:34
    77%

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

  • Deut 1:33
    75%

    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 14:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    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 24:15-18
    4 verses
    74%

    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.

    17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

    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
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 31:15
    73%

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

  • Exod 33:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

    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.

  • Exod 16:13
    71%

    13In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

  • 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.

  • Num 16:42
    71%

    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.

  • Num 10:11
    71%

    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.

  • Exod 16:10
    71%

    10As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud,

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

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

    11The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s glory filled his temple.

  • Num 11:9
    70%

    9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

  • Isa 4:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over its convocations a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flame of fire by night; indeed a canopy will accompany the LORD’s glorious presence.

    6By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.

  • Luke 9:34
    69%

    34As he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

  • Lev 24:3
    68%

    3Outside the special curtain of the congregation in the Meeting Tent Aaron must arrange it from evening until morning before the LORD continually. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

  • Exod 40:19
    68%

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

  • Exod 14:24
    68%

    24In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

  • Lev 6:13
    68%

    13A continual fire must be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished.

  • Heb 9:2
    68%

    2For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

  • Exod 26:30
    67%

    30You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that you were shown on the mountain.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    67%

    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.