The Fiery Cloud

15 The Tabernacle was set up, and on that day the cloud covered it.[5][Hebrew covered the Tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony. ] Then from evening until morning the cloud over the Tabernacle appeared to be a pillar of fire.
16 This was the regular pattern—at night the cloud changed to the appearance of fire.
17 When the cloud lifted from over the sacred tent, the people of Israel followed it. And wherever the cloud settled, the people of Israel camped.
18 In this way, they traveled at the LORD's command and stopped wherever he told them to. Then they remained where they were as long as the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle.
19 If the cloud remained over the Tabernacle for a long time, the Israelites stayed for a long time, just as the LORD commanded.
20 Sometimes the cloud would stay over the Tabernacle for only a few days, so the people would stay for only a few days. Then at the LORD's command they would break camp.
21 Sometimes the cloud stayed only overnight and moved on the next morning. But day or night, when the cloud lifted, the people broke camp and followed.
22 Whether the cloud stayed above the Tabernacle for two days, a month, or a year, the people of Israel stayed in camp and did not move on. But as soon as it lifted, they broke camp and moved on.
23 So they camped or traveled at the LORD's command, and they did whatever the LORD told them through Moses.