This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, ¹  and there was a fiery appearance by night.

And when the dew came down ¹  on the camp in the night, the manna fell ²  with it.)

then they will tell it to the inhabitants ¹  of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, ²  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.”