“And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.”
Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. The entire community watches Moses walk to the tent of meeting — every person standing at their own tent entrance, following Moses' movement toward the place of encounter with God. The watching communicates both reverence and longing: the community that has forfeited immediate divine presence watches the mediator who maintains access to what they have lost. The people at their tent entrances watching Moses at the tent of meeting is a picture of the community gathered at the boundary of what they cannot directly enter.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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