Numbers 9:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ It was always so: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ So it was constantly; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ It was always there. The cloud covered it by day, appearing with lightning at night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ This was so continually: throughout the day a cloud covered it, and throughout the night, the appearance of fire.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night, as it were the appearance of fire.

Numbers 9:16 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:12

Moreover, you led them by day with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way in which they should go.

Nehemiah 9:19

you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.

Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light by night.

Psalm 78:14

In the daytime he led them with a cloud and all night long with a fiery light.

Exodus 40:34

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

Exodus 40:38

For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel at each stage of their journey.

1 Corinthians 10:1

I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

2 Corinthians 5:19

that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.

Deuteronomy 1:33

who goes before you on the way to seek out a place for you to camp, in fire by night, and in the cloud by day, to show you the route you should take.’

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and be their God;