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Numbers 9:15

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

Numbers 9:15 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 9:15

Theological / Devotional

Tent of the testimony. The Hebrew expression thus rendered occurs only here and, as “tabernacle of witness,” in (Num. 17:7, 8; 18:2; 2 Chron. 24:6). The usual phrase is “tabernacle of the congregation” (KJV) or “tent of meeting” (RSV).

The testimony. That is, the two tables of stone written by the finger of God and placed within the ark. This moral law, the Decalogue, was the foundation stone upon which Judaism was based. The cloud covered that part of the sanctuary containing the ark, in which rested the holy law, the Ten Commandments.

Appearance of fire. In Gen. 15:17 God is represented under a similar figure.

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