darknesse to them but] The cloud sheweth light to the Israelites, but to the Egyptians it was darknesse, so that their two hosts could not joyne together: it usually went before the campe, now it came behind, and betwixt the A〈…〉es of the Hebrews and Egyptians, shewing light to the one, d being black and darke to the other.
divided] So farre asunder, that there was way enough for so many hundred thousand to passe through in one night, which required a great breadth: some thinke every tribe had his proper pah. So Epiphan. haeres. 46.