Exodus 40:37

37 As long as the cloud stayed there, they did not move their camp.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wtleh) "sustolli ejus", Montanus.

Exodus 40:37 In-Context

35 Because of this, Moses could not go into the Tent.

36 The Israelites moved their camp to another place only when the cloud lifted from the Tent.

37 As long as the cloud stayed there, they did not move their camp.

38 During all their wanderings they could see the cloud of the Lord's presence over the Tent during the day and a fire burning above it during the night.