Numbers 9:14-16
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14 “A foreigner living among you might want to share in the Lord’s Passover with you. This is allowed, but that person must follow all the rules about Passover. The same rules are for everyone.”
The Cloud and the Fire
15 On the day the Holy Tent, the Tent of the Agreement, was set up, a cloud covered it. At night the cloud over the Holy Tent looked like fire. 16 The cloud stayed over the Holy Tent all the time. And at night the cloud looked like fire.
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Numbers 9:14-16
English Standard Version
14 And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. (A)You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.”
The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle
15 (B)On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And (C)at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning. 16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day[a] and the appearance of fire by night.
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- Numbers 9:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks by day
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