Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 27:21

21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail , which is before the testimony , Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations, on the behalf of the children of Israel.

So called because there the people used to meet not onely one with another, but with God also. See Exod. 25. 22. Numb. 17. 4. Others render it, in the tabernacle of witness, because there God declared his mind and will and mans duty.

To wit, the second vail, in the holy place.

A short speech for, before the Ark of the Testimony, as it is elsewhere more largely called, compare Exod. 25. 16.

To wit, the lamp, or the lights, taking care that there be a constant supply of them, and that they burn well.

Marginal references: Heb. of meeting. See chap. 25. 22. and 29. 42.; chap. 26. 31, 33.