Exodus 40:37

37 but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.

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Exodus 40:37 in Other Translations

KJV

37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

ESV

37 But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.

NLT

37 But if the cloud did not rise, they remained where they were until it lifted.

MSG

37 but if the Cloud did not lift, they wouldn't set out until it did lift.

CSB

37 If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up.

Exodus 40:37 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:37

But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed
not
Even if it continued so two days, or a month, or a year, as very probably it sometimes did; which will in some measure account for the long continuance of the Israelites in the wilderness, see ( Numbers 9:22 )

till the day that it was taken up:
or, "of its ascent" ^F6, being "lifted up", or going upwards, higher in the air, right over the tabernacle, or perhaps more to the front of it; the word used before in this and the preceding verse has the signification of ascending upwards.

FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wtleh) "sustolli ejus", Montanus.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Exodus 40:37 In-Context

35 Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

36 In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out;

37 but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.

38 So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.

Exodus 40:37

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Exodus 40:37 in Other Translations

Exodus 40:37 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:37 In-Context