John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 9:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So it was alway, etc.] Night and day, as long as the people of Israel were in the wilderness, (see <021321>Exodus 13:21,22 <160919>Nehemiah 9:19); the cloud covered it [by day]: the phrase, “by day”, is not in the text, but is easily and necessarily supplied from (<024038>Exodus 40:38); and as it is in the Targum of Jonathan, and in the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and which the following clause requires: and the appearance of fire by night; when as a cloud it could not be because of the darkness of the night; as in the daytime it could not be discerned as a body of fire or light, because of the light of the sun; but being seen under these different forms, was serviceable both by day and night, for the following purposes.

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