there a distinct explication of them.

7. When matters were brought to this state, Moses went up again to Mount
Sinai, of which he had told them beforehand. He made his ascent in their
sight; and while he staid there so long a time, [for he was absent from
them forty days,] fear seized upon the Hebrews, lest Moses should have
come to any harm; nor was there any thing else so sad, and that so much
troubled them, as this supposal that Moses was perished. Now there was
a variety in their sentiments about it; some saying that he was fallen
among wild beasts; and those that were of this opinion were chiefly such
as were ill-disposed to him; but others said that he was departed, and
gone to God; but the wiser sort were led by their reason to embrace
neither of those opinions with any satisfaction, thinking, that as it
was a thing that sometimes happens to men to fall among wild beasts and
perish that way, so it was probable enough that he might depart and
go to God, on account of his virtue; they therefore were quiet, and
expected the event: yet were they exceeding sorry upon the supposal that
they were deprived of a governor and a protector, such a one indeed as
they could never recover again; nor would this suspicion give them leave
to expect any comfortable event about this man, nor could they prevent
their trouble and melancholy upon this occasion. However, the camp durst
not remove all this while, because Moses had bidden them afore to stay
there.

8. But when the forty days, and as many nights, were over, Moses
came down, having tasted nothing of food usually appointed for the
nourishment of men. His appearance filled the army with gladness, and
he declared to them what care God had of them, and by what manner of
conduct of their lives they might live happily; telling them, that
during these days of his absence he had suggested to him also that he
would have a tabernacle built for him, into which he would descend when
he came to them, and how we should carry it about with us when we remove
from this place; and that there would be no longer any occasion for
going up to Mount Sinai, but that he would himself come and pitch his
tabernacle amongst us, and be present at our prayers; as also, that the
tabernacle should be of such measures and construction as he had shown
him, and that you are to fall to the work, and prosecute it diligently.
When he had said this, he showed them the two tables, with the ten
commandments eng