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and after leaving Mount Sinai,[a] they stopped wearing fancy jewelry.

The Lord Is with His People

Moses used to set up a tent far from camp. He called it the “meeting tent,” and whoever needed some message from the Lord would go there. Each time Moses went out to this tent, everyone would stand at the entrance to their own tents and watch him enter.

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Footnotes

  1. 33.6 Mount Sinai: The Hebrew text has “Mount Horeb,” another name for Sinai.

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.(A)

The Tent of Meeting

Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.”(B) Anyone inquiring(C) of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents,(D) watching Moses until he entered the tent.

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