t thou mayest use them
for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the
camps.' "(712) "How?" "The trumpets sounded, blew an alarm, and sounded
three blasts for every standard." Rabbi Judah said, "there were three
blasts for every tribe."

Chapter XIV

When Israel was to encamp, the pillar of cloud rose up and spread out over
the children of Judah like a kind of booth, and it covered the tent
outward, and filled the tabernacle inward; as is said, "Then a cloud
covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the
tabernacle."(713) And this was one of the clouds of glory, which served
the Israelites in the wilderness forty years. One on the right hand, and
one on the left, and one before them, and one behind them. And one over
them, and a cloud dwelling in their midst (and the cloud, the SHECHINAH
which was in the Tent), and the pillar of cloud which moved before them,
making low before them the high (places), and making high before them the
low (places), and killing serpents and scorpions, and burning thorns and
briers, and guiding them in a straight way. Rabbi Simon, the son of Jose,
said, "during the forty years, when the Israelites were in the wilderness,
none of them had need of the light of the sun by day, nor the light of the
moon by night. When it became reddish they knew that the sun had set, and
when it became whitish they knew that the sun rose. And when one looked
into a barrel, he knew what was in it; and into a pitcher, and he knew
what was in it, by reason of the cloud, the SHECHINAH in their midst," as
is said, "For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and
fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel
throughout all their journey."(714) And so it is prepared to come in the
future: as is said, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of
the Lord is risen upon thee." "The sun shall be no more thy light by day;
neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord
shall be unto thee an everlasting light." "Thy sun shall no more go down;
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be thine
everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."(715)
"From whence did the SHECHINAH speak with Moses?" Rabbi Nathan said, "from
the altar of incense," as is said, "And thou shalt put it before the vail
that is by the ark of the testimony, etc.,

WHERE I WILL MEET WITH THEE."(716)

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