Exodus 40:34

34 (40-31) He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfected,

Exodus 40:34 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:34

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation
The outside of it; this cloud was the same with the pillar of cloud that went before the Israelites, as soon almost as they came out of Egypt; and led them through the Red sea, and conducted them to Mount Sinai; only it now appeared in a different form, not erect as a pillar, but more expanded, so as to cover the tabernacle without;

and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle;
the inside of it, not the most holy place only, but the holy place also: this was an uncommon brightness, lustre, and splendour, a glorious stream of light, which the eye of man could not well bear to behold; such a glory filled the temple of Solomon at the dedication of that, ( 1 Kings 8:11 ) and was an emblem of Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, dwelling in and filling the tabernacle of the human nature, where the Godhead, the Shechinah, the divine Majesty, dwells bodily, ( Hebrews 1:3 ) ( John 1:14 ) ( Colossians 2:9 ) .

Exodus 40:34 In-Context

32 (40-29) And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,

33 (40-30) When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

34 (40-31) He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfected,

35 (40-32) The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.

36 (40-33) Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the cloud had covered all.