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. . . .