Exodus 13:21

13:21 Now the Lord was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, ¹  so that they could ²  travel day or night. ³ 

Exodus 27:11

27:11 Likewise ⁴  for its length on the north side, there are to be ⁵  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ⁶  on the posts.

Exodus 38:11-12

38:11 For the north side the hangings were ⁷  one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:12 For the west side there were ⁸  hangings seventy-five feet long, with ⁹  their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

[13:21]  ¹ sn God chose to guide the people with a pillar of cloud in the day and one of fire at night, or, as a pillar of cloud and fire, since they represented his presence. God had already appeared to Moses in the fire of the bush, and so here again is revelation with fire. Whatever the exact nature of these things, they formed direct, visible revelations from God, who was guiding the people in a clear and unambiguous way. Both clouds and fire would again and again represent the presence of God in his power and majesty, guiding and protecting his people, by judging their enemies.

[13:21]  ² tn The infinitive construct here indicates the result of these manifestations – “so that they went” or “could go.”

[13:21]  ³ tn These are adverbial accusatives of time.

[27:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and thus.”

[27:11]  ⁵ tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

[27:11]  ⁶ sn These bands have been thought by some to refer to connecting rods joining the tops of the posts. But it is more likely that they are bands or bind rings surrounding the posts at the base of the capitals (see 38:17).

[38:11]  ⁷ tn Here the phrase “the hangings were” has been supplied.

[38:12]  ¹⁰ tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.

[38:12]  ¹¹ tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.