Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus 39:33 does something the plain Hebrew text does not. It tells us where, exactly, the finished tabernacle was brought. Not to a random tent. Not to a storehouse. It was carried to Moshe at his beth Midrash — his house of instruction, where Moshe and Aharon and Aharon's sons sat, and where Moshe taught them the order of the priesthood. The elders of Israel were seated there too.
A tabernacle delivered to a classroom
The meturgeman is making a claim that the plain text leaves unstated. The Mishkan is not only a place of sacrifice. It is a place of study. Before the altar was lit, before the first lamb was offered, the tabernacle arrived at a house where Torah was being taught. The taches, the boards, the bars, the pillars, and the bases were laid out in front of scholars.
Later generations would debate whether the beit midrash or the beit knesset — the house of study or the house of prayer — held priority. The meturgeman answers before the question is even asked. The tabernacle itself was delivered to a beit midrash. Worship begins with learning.
Aharon among his sons, elders all around
The scene the targumist paints is tender. Moshe is seated. Aharon is seated next to him. The priestly sons are arranged as students. The elders of Israel circle the room. This is not a construction site. This is a seminar. The finished pieces of the sanctuary — the rings, the clasps, the poles — come into the room the way a new book comes into a yeshiva: to be studied, named, and understood.
The ancient rabbis took the hint. They held that no Israelite was permitted to approach the Mishkan without understanding what each piece was for. The sanctuary was never meant to be a mystery maintained by specialists. It was a curriculum.
The takeaway: the Mishkan's first home was a classroom. Holiness enters the world through teaching before it enters through fire.