Exodus 33:6

Horeb E's term: see on Exodus 3:1.

There can be little doubt that, as Di. remarks, according to E the ornaments were to be used in the construction or decoration of the Tent of Meeting (cf., in P, Exodus 25:2-8; Exodus 35:22-29): some account of the construction of the Tent would naturally precede the notice of its use in vv.7 11. But E's account of the Tent of Meeting, -which originally followed here, and which certainly differed greatly from that of P, was omitted by the compiler, who preferred that of P (chs. 25 27); and only its conclusion is preserved in vv.7 11." Whether (Di. al.) the ark in its tent was intended originally as a substitute for the immediate presence of Jehovah on Sinai, after the people had left Sinai (just as in P, after the Tent of Meeting is erected, Jehovah speaks to Moses not on Sinai, but from the Tent), is more perhaps than we can say.