“From the Tent of Meeting” – although the Torah was given as a fence from Sinai,19Some interpret this to mean that although the Israelites could not yet fully observe the commandments because they had not yet been explained, the very fact that the commandments had been given served to distinguish them and elevate them from the nations of the world, much like a fence marks off a given area (Etz Yosef). they were punished for [violating] it only after it was repeated at the Tent of Meeting.
This is analogous to a writ of decree that was written and sealed, and it entered the province. The residents of the province will not be punished on its account until it is explained to them in the province’s public forum. So too, although the Torah was given to Israel in Sinai, they were punished for it only after it was repeated to them at the Tent of Meeting. That is what is written: “Until I brought him to my mother's house, and to the chamber of the one who conceived me” (Song of Songs 3:4).
“To my mother's house” – this is Sinai. “And to the chamber of the one who conceived me” – this is the Tent of Meeting, as it was from there that Israel was commanded regarding the Torah’s rulings.