Exodus 13:22
Good News Translation
The pillar of cloud was always in front of the people during the day, and the pillar of fire at night.

New Revised Standard Version
Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

New American Bible
Neither the column of cloud by day nor the column of fire by night ever left its place in front of the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.

he took

Psalm 121:5-8 The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand. . . .

pillar of fire

Revelation 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head: and his face, as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.

Context
The Pillars of Cloud and Fire
21And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times. 22There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.
Cross References
Exodus 14:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Exodus 14:19
And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the forepart,

Numbers 9:15
Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire until the morning.

Nehemiah 9:12
And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.

Nehemiah 9:19
Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

Isaiah 4:5
And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.

Exodus 13:21
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