Nehemiah 9:12-21 And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

BBE⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go. ¹³ And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders: ¹⁴ And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant: ¹⁵ And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them. ¹⁶ But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders, ¹⁷ And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up. ¹⁸ Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry; ¹⁹ Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go. ²⁰ And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it. ²¹ Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.