call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge; this looks as if the people had been dismissed after the above exhortations given; and now Joshua was called, and Moses with him, to have a charge given him:and Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation; before the Lord.
Aben Ezra says, Moses went from the camp of Israel where he was, to the camp of the Shechinah; the Jews pretend to know in what form they walked thither. Moses, they say , went on the left hand of Joshua; and they went to the tabernacle, and the pillar of cloud descended and separated between them.
Debarim Rabba, sect. 9. fol. 244.