Exodus 40:33

“And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, etc.] Which consisted of hangings one hundred cubits long and fifty broad; (see <022709>Exodus 27:9), etc. and set up the hanging of the court gate; which was at the east end of it; and the hanging was of twenty cubits, hung upon four pillars, (<022716>Exodus 27:16) so Moses finished the work; of the tabernacle, in making it by workmen, and in rearing it up by the help of others; and as the former was the work of some months, so the latter, it is highly probable, was the work of some days, at least, in doing all that is said to be done in this chapter relative to it; for though it is said to be reared up on the first day of…”

“So Moses finished the work--Though it is not expressly recorded in this passage, yet, from what took place on all similar occasions, there is reason to believe that on the inauguration day the people were summoned from their tents--were all drawn up as a vast assemblage, yet in calm and orderly arrangement, around the newly erected tabernacle.”

“40:33 So at last Moses finished the work: See study note on 37:1-29.”

“up the court: Exo 40:8, Exo 27:9-16; Num 1:50; Mat 16:8; Co1 12:12, Co1 12:28; Eph 4:11-13; Heb 9:6, Heb 9:7 the tabernacle: The tabernacle might either be called a house or a tent, because it had wooden walls and partitions like a house, and curtains and hangings like a tent; but as it externally resembled a common oblong tent, and the wooden walls were without a roof, and properly only supports for the many curtains and hangings spread over them, it is more properly called a tent. Even the ordinary tents of the Arabs have at least two main divisions; the innermost for the women, and hence called sacred, i.e., cut off, inaccessible. In the tent of an emir the innermost space is accessible…”