And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Elle se plaça entre le camp des Egyptiens et le camp d'Israël. Cette nuée était ténébreuse d'un côté, et de l'autre elle éclairait la nuit. Et les deux camps n'approchèrent point l'un de l'autre pendant toute la nuit.
KJV
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Philo Judaeus
Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit
ων ἀναδιδάσκωμαι, ὃν τρόπον εἰσῆλθεν ἡ νεφέλη μέση τῆς τε Αἰγυπτιακῆς καὶ τῆς Ἰσραηλιτικῆς στρατιᾶς (Exod. 14,20)· ὑπὸ γὰρ τοῦ φιλοπαθοῦς καὶ ἀθέου τὸ ἐγκρατὲς καὶ θεοφιλὲς γένος οὐκέτ’ εἴασε διώκεσθαι τὸ σκεπαστήριον καὶ σωτήριον τῶν φίλων, ἀμυντήριον δὲ καὶ κολαστήριον τῶν ἐχθρ…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 125 (Migne)
iter columna nubis, priora dimittens, post tergum stetit, inter castra Aegyptiorum et castra Israel (Exod. XIV, 20) . Et erat nubes tenebrosa, et illuminans noctem, ita ut ad se invicem toto noctis tempore accedere non valerent. Et una eademque virga, extenta super aquas, quae er…
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