1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Numbers 9:15 | *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. Exodus 40:16.; Numbers 7:1. | A cloud, and fire, alternately covered the tabernacle of the covenant, which was 30 cubits long and 15 broad. The pagans, perhaps, hence took occasion to accuse the Jews of adoring the clouds. Nil praeter nubis et coeli Numen adorant. (Juvenal, Sat. xiv.) (Calmet) |