Exodus 33:7

And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the (c) Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which [was] without the camp.

(c) That is, the tabernacle of the congregation: so called because the people turned to it, when they needed to be instructed of the Lord's will.