So the children of Israel laid their good raiment from them, after Moses came down from the mount Horeb.

Then Moses took his tabernacle, and pitched it without the host far off from the host, and called it [a]Ohel-moed. And when any did seek to the Lord, he went out unto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, which was without the host.

And when Moses went out unto the Tabernacle, all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tabernacle.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 33:7 That is, the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so called, because the people resorted thither, when they should be instructed of the Lord’s will.

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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