NUM 9:16 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Οὕτως ἐγίνετο διαπαντός· ἡ νεφέλη ἐκάλυπτεν αὐτὴν ἡμέρας, καὶ εἶδος πυρὸς τὴν νύκτα.
(Houtōs egineto diapantos; haʸ nefelaʸ ekalupten autaʸn haʸmeras, kai eidos puros taʸn nukta. )

BrTr So it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

ULT So it is continually; the cloud covers it, and the appearance of fire is at night.

UST That is what happened regularly. The cloud would be directly over the sacred tent, and it would look like fire during the night.

BSB It remained that way continually; the cloud would cover [the tabernacle] [by day],[fn] and at night it would appear like fire.

9:16 LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; Hebrew does not include by day

MSB (Same as BSB above including footnotes)

OEB No OEB NUM book available

WEBBE So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

LSV so it is continually; the cloud covers it, also the appearance of fire by night.

FBV It was always like this. The cloud covered the Tabernacle during the day[fn] and at night it looked like fire.

9:16 “During the day”: Septuagint reading.

T4T 15-16 On the day that the Sacred Tent was set up, a cloud covered it. From the time that the sun set until the time that the sun rose the next day, the cloud resembled a huge fire. And that is what happened every day that we/the Israelis were in the desert.

LEB So it was[fn] continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night.

9:16 Hebrew “it will be”

BBE And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.

Moff No Moff NUM book available

JPS So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

ASV So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

DRA So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the appearance of fire.

YLT so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night.

Drby So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.

RV So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
(So it was always: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. )

SLT So shall it be always: the cloud shall cover it, and the appearance of fire by night.

Wbstr So it was always; the cloud covered it by day , and the appearance of fire by night.

KJB-1769 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
(So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. )

KJB-1611 So it was always: the cloud couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps So it was alway: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearaunce of fire by nyght.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Gnva So it was alway: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
(So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. )

Cvdl So came it to passe allwaye, yt the cloude couered it by daye, & the symilitude of fyre by night.
(So came it to pass always, it the cloud covered it by day, and the similitude of fire by night.)

Wycl Thus it was don continueli, a cloude hilide it bi dai, and as the licnesse of fier bi nyyt.
(Thus it was done continueli, a cloud helde it by day, and as the likeness of fire by night.)

Luth Also geschah es immerdar, daß die Wolke sie bedeckte und des Nachts die Gestalt des Feuers.
(So happened it forever, that the cloud they/she/them covered and the night the shape(n) the fire(n)s.)

ClVg Sic fiebat jugiter: per diem operiebat illud nubes, et per noctem quasi species ignis.
(So was_happening regularly: through day operiebat it/this/that clouds, and through the_night as_if in_appearances fire. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

(Occurrence 0) It continued that way

(Some words not found in UHB: yes/correct/thus/so will_belong continuously the,cloud it,covered_it and=appearance fire night )

It may be helpful to explain that this refers to the cloud being over the tabernacle. Alternate translation: “The cloud remained this way over the tabernacle”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

(Occurrence 0) appeared like fire at night

(Some words not found in UHB: yes/correct/thus/so will_belong continuously the,cloud it,covered_it and=appearance fire night )

The cloud’s appearance is compared to a huge fire. Alternate translation: “it looked like a huge fire at night”

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