Numbers 1:1

the tent of meeting Heb. "ôhel mô-çd. A.V. -tabernacle of the congregation" confuses mô-çdwith -çdah. LXX. σκηνὴ τοῦ μαρτυρίου (-tent of witness") confuses mô-çdwith -çdûth. The name -tent of meeting" is a term very frequently employed in P for the Tabernacle (cf. Numbers 3:7 f., Numbers 4:2 f., Exodus 27:21; Leviticus 1:1; Leviticus 1:3). Exodus 29:42 (P) shews the meaning which attached to it -where I will meet with you to speak there unto thee"; it was understood to mean -the tent where Jehovah met His people by appointment," the -tent of tryst." But the name was also used in earlier times for the sacred tent, which in Exodus 33:7-11 (E) is pictured as an ordinary nomad tent which Moses could himself carry and pitch outside the camp. And it seems probable that in the primitive days of which E preserves a record a somewhat different meaning attached to the name. See note on Numbers 12:4.