John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 40:37

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not, etc.] 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 <040922>Numbers 9:22) till the day that it was taken up: or, “of its ascent” f1017, 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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