Numbers 9:16
So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the appearance of fire.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sic fiebat jugiter : per diem operiebat illud nubes, et per noctem quasi species ignis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὕτως ἐγίνετο διὰ παντός, ἡ νεφέλη ἐκάλυπτεν αὐτὴν ἡμέρας καὶ εἶδος πυρὸς τὴν νύκτα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כֵּ֚ן יִהְיֶ֣ה תָמִ֔יד הֶעָנָ֖ן יְכַסֶּ֑נּוּ וּמַרְאֵה אֵ֖שׁ לָֽיְלָה
Haydock's commentary
By day. These words are omitted in the Hebrew; but the context shews that they must necessarily be supplied; as they are in the Septuagint. The same cloud assumed different appearances. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.