Numbers 7:89

89. To speak with him With Jehovah. “Whilst the tribe-princes had thus given to the altar the consecration of a sanctuary of their God, through their sacrificial gifts, Jehovah acknowledged it as his sanctuary by causing Moses, when he went into the tabernacle to speak to him and to present his own entreaties and those of the people, to hear the voice of Him that spake to him from between the two cherubim upon the ark of the covenant.” Keil and Delitzsch. The voice of one speaking This is a proof that Jehovah sometimes communicated his will by words addressed to the ear. “This voice from the inmost sanctuary to Moses, the representative of Israel, was Jehovah’s reply to the gladness and promptness with which the princes of Israel responded to him, and made the tabernacle, on their part, a place of holy meeting.” Baumgarten. Hence the pertinence of this verse to the account of the dedicatory gifts.