And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
Don't wait to be settled before you worship God. A tabernacle in the wilderness is more needful than a palace later; our carcases may fall here, and we may be fixed in another world before we come to fix in this. Moses obeyed every particular in the order God appointed, repeating his obedience seven times over: not adding, not diminishing, not varying in the least punctilio.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 40:16-33
The cloud did not lift on its own schedule but only when the Lord moved it upward; Israel remained encamped however long it stayed fixed, whether two days or a month or a year. This explains their protracted wandering in the wilderness, for they followed not their own will but the pillar's rising.
AI summary
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.