Exode 40:34

34 Alors la nuée couvrit la tente d'assignation, et la gloire de l'Eternel remplit le tabernacle.

Exode 40:34 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:34

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation
The outside of it; this cloud was the same with the pillar of cloud that went before the Israelites, as soon almost as they came out of Egypt; and led them through the Red sea, and conducted them to Mount Sinai; only it now appeared in a different form, not erect as a pillar, but more expanded, so as to cover the tabernacle without;

and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle;
the inside of it, not the most holy place only, but the holy place also: this was an uncommon brightness, lustre, and splendour, a glorious stream of light, which the eye of man could not well bear to behold; such a glory filled the temple of Solomon at the dedication of that, ( 1 Kings 8:11 ) and was an emblem of Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, dwelling in and filling the tabernacle of the human nature, where the Godhead, the Shechinah, the divine Majesty, dwells bodily, ( Hebrews 1:3 ) ( John 1:14 ) ( Colossians 2:9 ) .

Exode 40:34 In-Context

32 lorsqu'ils entrèrent dans la tente d'assignation et qu'ils s'approchèrent de l'autel, ils se lavèrent, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

33 Il dressa le parvis autour du tabernacle et de l'autel, et il mit le rideau à la porte du parvis. Ce fut ainsi que Moïse acheva l'ouvrage.

34 Alors la nuée couvrit la tente d'assignation, et la gloire de l'Eternel remplit le tabernacle.

35 Moïse ne pouvait pas entrer dans la tente d'assignation, parce que la nuée restait dessus, et que la gloire de l'Eternel remplissait le tabernacle.

36 Aussi longtemps que durèrent leurs marches, les enfants d'Israël partaient, quand la nuée s'élevait de dessus le tabernacle.