Exodus 13:21 Cross References - NSB

²¹ Jehovah went in front of them in a pillar of cloud to show them the way during the day. He went in front of them in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel at night.

¹⁹ The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. ²⁰ So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night. ²¹ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. Jehovah swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land. The waters were divided. ²² The Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground. The water stood like a wall on their right and on their left. ²³ The Egyptians pursued them. Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and cavalry followed them into the sea. ²⁴ Just before dawn, Jehovah looked down from the column of fire and smoke and threw the Egyptian camp into a panic.

⁹ After Moses entered, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the door of the Tent. Jehovah would speak to Moses from the cloud. ¹⁰ The people would bow down as soon they saw the pillar of cloud at the door of the Tent.

³⁴ The column of smoke then covered the tent of meeting. The glory of Jehovah filled the tent. ³⁵ Moses could not go into the tent of meeting because the smoke settled on it and the glory of Jehovah filled the tent. ³⁶ In all their travels, when the column of smoke moved from the tent, the Israelites would break camp. ³⁷ But if the column did not move, they would not break camp. ³⁸ Jehovah’s column of smoke stayed over the tent during the day. There was fire in the smoke at night. This way all the Israelites could see the column throughout their travels.

¹⁵ That day the tent of the words of God’s Covenant was set up. The column of smoke covered it. The smoke over the tent glowed like fire from evening until morning. ¹⁶ The smoke always glowed this way. At night the smoke that covered the tent glowed like fire. ¹⁷ When the smoke moved from the tent the Israelites would break camp. Wherever it stopped the Israelites would set up camp. ¹⁸ The Israelites would break camp or set up camp at Jehovah’s command. They stayed at the place where the column of smoke stayed over the tent. ¹⁹ When the smoke stayed over the tent for a long time, the Israelites obeyed Jehovah’s command and did not break camp. ²⁰ The same thing happened when the smoke stayed only a few days over the tent: At Jehovah’s command they would set up camp, and at his command they would break camp. ²¹ Sometimes the column of smoke stayed only from evening until morning. They broke camp when the smoke moved in the morning. Day or night, when the smoke moved, they broke camp. ²² Whether it was two days, a month, or a year, as long as the column of smoke stayed over the tent, the Israelites stayed in the same place. But when the smoke moved, they would break camp and move. ²³ At Jehovah’s command they set up camp, and at his command they broke camp. They obeyed the command Jehovah gave through Moses.

³⁴ They moved camp to camp with the cloud of Jehovah over them by day.

³³ »He went ahead of you to find places for you to camp. He offered fire by night and cloud by day to show you the way you should go.

¹⁴ they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Jehovah, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁹ »Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

¹² »And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

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

⁷ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept His testimonies and the commandment that he gave them.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud as a protective covering and a fire to light up the night.

⁵ Then Jehovah will create over the entire area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night. A canopy (shelter) will be over all as the glory (honor). ⁶ There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.

¹ Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about how all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. ² They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.