Exodus 33:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

tabernacle. tent; eleven times called tent; Hebrew. 'ohel. Not the tabernacle, for this was not yet made, but. different building altogether, called "the tent of assembly "(see App-40).

without the camp. In presence of corporate failure God withdraws Himself. Typical of our own day. Those who seek Him must "go forth to Him. "Compare Hebrews 13:13.

Exodus 33:7

7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.