Exodus 14:20
It 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.
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- Ps 18:11 : 11 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
- Prov 4:18-19 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day. 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
- Isa 8:14 : 14 He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble– to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.
- 2 Cor 2:15-16 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing– 16 to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?
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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.
- Exod 13:20-223 verses80%
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.
- Exod 14:21-277 verses80%
21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
22So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
23The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea– all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.
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.
25He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving, and the Egyptians said,“Let’s flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!”
26The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”
27So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
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14He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.
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39He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.
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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 10:21-233 verses76%
21The Ninth Blow: Darkness The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”
22So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.
23No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
- Exod 40:36-383 verses76%
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.
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7Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.
- Num 9:19-224 verses75%
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.
- Num 9:15-173 verses75%
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.
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34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.
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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.
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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 14:29-302 verses73%
29But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
30So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.
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13In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.
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10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,
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21The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
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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.
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9And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)
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4Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
- Exod 14:2-32 verses71%
2“Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.
3Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’
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13So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!
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16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
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12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
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34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
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42It was a night of vigil for the LORD to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the LORD for generations to come.
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11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
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28He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.