“the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 13 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.