Exodus 40:36

Translations

Modern

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.

Traditional

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

Literal

And whenever the cloud was taken up from on the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out in all their journeys;

Latin

Siquando nubes tabernaculum deserebat, proficiscebantur filii Israël per turmas suas:

Original

Hebrew

English

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.

Notes

Exodus 40:34–38

The most important part of the exodus happened when the glory of the Lord filled the Tent of Meeting.

From the beginning, God’s purpose was not only to rescue Israel from slavery. He wanted to bring them into a close relationship with himself. Their greatest need was to know God personally.

Without God’s presence, the promised land would not truly be a place of blessing. But now it would be different. The same glory that appeared on Mount Sinai was now with Israel. It would not stay behind. It would travel with them wherever they went.

Theme notes and profiles

Completion of the Second Temple Holy War Pure Worship The Cloud and Fire The Glory of God

Related verses

Nehemiah 9:19
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
Numbers 9:17
Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
Numbers 10:11–13
On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
Exodus 13:21–22
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
Numbers 10:33–36
So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
Psalm 105:39
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
Psalm 78:14
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
1 Corinthians 10:1
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
Numbers 19:17–22
For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
2 Corinthians 5:19–20
…that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

Parallels

Numbers 9:15–23

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Book of Exodus Deuteronomy, Book of Glorification Glory History of Israel Leviticus, Book of Pillar of Fire and Cloud Presence of God Shekinah Tabernacle Temple

Topics

Cloud of Glory was Designed to Regulate the Movements of Israel Cloud: Pillar of God: Preserver in the Wilderness Journey of Israel Through The Desert: To Mount Sinai: Tabernacle First Set Up Tabernacle: Filled with the Cloud of Glory Tabernacle: The Journeys of Israel Regulated by the Cloud On The Theocracy: or Immediate Government by God: Consisted in His: Directing the Movements of the Nation

Exodus 40:36

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