So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.

So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it were the appearance of fire.

So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.

So it was always; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

so it is continually; the cloud covereth it, also the appearance of fire by night.

And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.

So it was continually. The cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Sic erat jugiter: nubes operiebat ilud, et species ignis noctu.

So it was alway,.... Night and day, as long as the people of Israel were in the wilderness, see Exodus 13:21,
the cloud covered it by day: the phrase, "by day", is not in the text, but is easily and necessarily supplied from Exodus 40:38; and as it is in the Targum of Jonathan, and in the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and which the following clause requires:
and the appearance of fire by night; when as a cloud it could not be because of the darkness of the night; as in the daytime it could not be discerned as a body of fire or light, because of the light of the sun; but being seen under these different forms, was serviceable both by day and night, for the following purposes.

The covering of the dwelling, with the cloud which shone by night as a fiery look, was constant, and not merely a phenomenon which appeared when the tabernacle was first erected, and then vanished away again.