The tabernacle was a tent set up by Moses for the people to meet in for sacrifice and seeking of God, and other parts of God's worship, until the great tabernacle should be finished; for such a place was necessary, or highly expedient for that use, and therefore it is not probable they would be without it for a year's space. Afar off from the camp; in testimony of God's alienation from them, and displeasure against them, this being a kind of excommunication; and all was too little to bring them to a thorough repentance. The tabernacle of the congregation; it was so before, but he called it so now, to show that God had not wholly forsaken them; and that if they truly repented, he still permitted them to come into his presence, and to seek the Lord. Every one which sought the Lord; either for his favour, or for counsel and direction. See Exodus 18:15,19,20.
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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.