Matthew Poole and continuators on 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.

A tent set up by Moses for the people to meet in for sacrifice and seeking of God and other parts of Gods Worship, untill 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 years space.

In testimony of Gods alienation from them and displeasure against them, this being a kind of e[illegible: 1+ letters]communication, and all was too little to bring them to a thorough repentance.

It was so before, but he called it so now, to shew 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.

Either for his favour, or for counsel and direction: See Exod. 18. 1[illegible: 1+ letters], 19, 20.