Exodus 40:37

37 (40-34) If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:

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 (40-32) The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.

36 (40-33) Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all.

37 (40-34) If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward by their troops:

38 (40-35) If it hung over, they remained in the same place.