Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 16:9

9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, say unto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, come near before the LORD : for he hath heard your murmurings.

Either before the cloudy pillar, where God was especially present: or in the place of Gods Worship. For though the great Tabernacle was not yet built, yet it seems from Exod. 33. 7. there was a little Tabernacle. For as the solemn and publick and Sabbath worship was among them before the Tabernacle was built. So it was necessary there should be some place where they did assemble together and perform that worship which was proper to those times, and there God was supposed to be present in a peculiar manner.