Exodus 37-40

Compare:

The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” (Exodus 19:9)

Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. (Exodus 19:18)

To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. (Exodus 24:17-18)

The cloudy, fiery Divine Glory that the Israeli people experienced at Mount Sinai seems similar, if not identical, to their experience of the LORD in the consecrated tabernacle:

So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels. (Exodus 40:38)

The unapproachable God atop Mount Sinai is God nearby, also. The people sense God inside their hand crafted structure. Both high and low; both near and far; without and within--that's God for you!