Шмот 33:7 Комментарий: Rashi, Cassuto, Chizkuni & Da'at Zekenim

ומשה AND MOSES, from the time of the sin and henceforth,

The Seventh Section: The Tent of Meeting (33:7-11): This section is different from those around it in its verb forms. They appear here in the future or the conversive past to future, in place of the common style of biblical stories, in the conversive future to past or the simple past. Because of this, and because of the difference between the Tent of Meeting mentioned here and the Tabernacle, or the Tent of Meeting, described in the previous parsha and the next parsha, many felt that there is a difference in sources here: The sections speaking about the Tabernacle belong to Source P, whereas this here is a piece from a different source, where it is speaking about the sanctified tent of the generation of the desert. This is different from the Tabernacle (imagined by this approach) in Source P. So the form of the verbs indicates continuous actions that would reoccur from time to time with each stop of the Children of Israel in the desert.

However, one who takes this approach does not understand the verses clearly. We will [now] try to arrive at their correct understanding.