Esodo 33:8

8 Quando Mosè usciva per recarsi alla tenda, tutto il popolo si alzava, e ognuno se ne stava ritto all’ingresso della propria tenda, e seguiva con lo sguardo Mosè, finché egli fosse entrato nella tenda.

Esodo 33:8 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 33:8

And it came to pass, when Moses went out of the tabernacle,
&c.] For when he had pitched it he did not continue there; which shows it was not the tent or tabernacle he dwelt in, but whither he went to and fro, both to meet the Lord in it, and transact the affairs of the people, and especially the great affair now depending between God and them:

[that] all the people rose up:
in reverence of him as their ruler, and the minister of God, and as their Mediator between God and them, though they had but lately thought and spoke very meanly and contemptibly of him, ( Exodus 32:1 ) see ( Job 29:8 )

and stood every man at his tent door;
none offering to go in, nor to sit down until he was gone into the tabernacle, which was an instance of their respect to him:

and looked after Moses until he was gone into the tabernacle;
kept their eye on him as long as they could see him, thereby expressing their esteem of him, signifying their desire that he would intercede for them, and wishing him success therein: the Targum of Jonathan interprets all this of the ungodly among them that looked after Moses with an evil eye.

Esodo 33:8 In-Context

6 E i figliuoli d’Israele si spogliarono de’ loro ornamenti, dalla partenza dal monte Horeb in poi.

7 E Mosè prese la tenda, e la piantò per sé fuori del campo, a una certa distanza dal campo, e la chiamò la tenda di convegno; e chiunque cercava l’Eterno, usciva verso la tenda di convegno, ch’era fuori del campo.

8 Quando Mosè usciva per recarsi alla tenda, tutto il popolo si alzava, e ognuno se ne stava ritto all’ingresso della propria tenda, e seguiva con lo sguardo Mosè, finché egli fosse entrato nella tenda.

9 E come Mosè era entrato nella tenda, la colonna di nuvola scendeva, si fermava all’ingresso della tenda, e l’Eterno parlava con Mosè.

10 Tutto il popolo vedeva la colonna di nuvola ferma all’ingresso della tenda; e tutto il popolo si alzava, e ciascuno si prostrava all’ingresso della propria tenda.