ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף שמות 18:7

The subject, Moshe, comes before the verb, will take (took), according to the approach that we already dealt with (see above on Exodus 9:20-21), which has the subject come before the predicate (as opposed to the more common structure of Biblical Hebrew in which the verb of the predicate precedes the subject) for the sake of contrast or parallel to the action of a different subject. In the previous verse, it is said what the people did when they heard about the decree of God not to have His Divine Presence dwell among them. And now it is said that which, for his sake, Moshe did: The people did this, and Moshe did that. He took his tent (compare Exodus 18:7), and planted for himself this tent outside the camp, which was no longer fit for the revelation of God. And not only was it outside the camp but also a distance from the camp. (There is no way to understand this distancing except as being on account of the camp's excommunication, since it was defiled on account of the sin of the calf). And he called it the Tent of Meeting: He called it this name because the true Tent of Meeting - meaning the Tabernacle - which was already referred to as the Tent of Meeting several times in what preceded [this], was not yet in existence and temporarily could not be made. People are accustomed to this, to refer to a replacement with the name of the thing it is replacing. Moshe was hoping that God would want to meet with him in this Tent of Meeting, and his hope was not disappointed. And it is fitting that all of this would be said here. Since if it were not here, we would not have been able to understand where the words that God spoke to Moshe starting from verse 12 were spoken, for it is not written there that Moshe went up on Mount Sinai, nor anything else that indicates Moshe's sequestering himself to hear the words of God.

ויאסר יוסף מרכבתו, “Joseph harnessed his chariot.” Tanchuma Vayigash 7 states that there were two people who were honoured in a manner unparalleled. One was Yitro, the other was Yaakov. When Yitro visited Moses in the desert, the Torah writes: (‎Exodus 18,7) “Moses went forth to greet his father-in-law.” As soon as someone saw Moses leave his customary place in order to welcome Yitro, all the princes, Aaron the High Priest, as well as the entire nation went out also to welcome Yitro. Yaakov experienced something similar. As soon as people saw that heir ruler harnessed his chariot in order to welcome his father, the entire nation did the same. This was an example of what Isaiah 24,23 had in mind when he said: “and the Presence will be revealed to His elders.”