The Cloud Stays Until the Fire of the Pillar Rises

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 230:1

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"The pillar of cloud did not depart" (Exodus 13:22). The verse tells us that while the pillar of cloud was still present, the pillar of fire was already growing forth.

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