And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
the Lord ... spake ... out of the tabernacle. The laws that are contained in the previous record were delivered either to the people publicly from Sinai, as was the decalogue, or to Moses privately, on the summit of that mountain; but on the completion of the tabernacle, the remainder of the law was announced to the Hebrew leader by an audible voice from the divine glory which surmounted the mercyseat.