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

And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”