Psalm 105:39 {104:39}
Good News Translation
God put a cloud over his people and a fire at night to give them light.

New Revised Standard Version
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night.

Contemporary English Version
God hid them under a cloud and guided them by fire during the night.

New American Bible
He spread a cloud out as a cover, and made a fire to light up the night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

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Psalm 78:14 And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

Exodus 13:21,22 And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times. . . .

Exodus 14:24 And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host.

Numbers 9:15-22 Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire until the morning. . . .

Nehemiah 9:12,19 And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went. . . .

Isaiah 4:5 And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.

1 Corinthians 10:1,2 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. . . .

Context
Tell of His Wonders
38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them. 39He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.40They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:1
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

Exodus 13:21
And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.

Exodus 40:38
For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout all their mansions.

Nehemiah 9:12
And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went.

Job 26:9
He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud over it.

Psalm 78:14
And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

Isaiah 4:5
And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.

Psalm 105:38
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