Not everyone watched Moses walk to the tabernacle with reverence. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, the Aramaic paraphrase of the Torah, catches a detail the plain text leaves hidden.
"When Moses passed forth from the camp to go to the tabernacle, all the resha'ya, the wicked people, arose and stood, every man at the door of his tent, and looked with the eina bisha, the evil eye, after Moses, when he entered the tabernacle" (Exodus 33:8).
The Torah simply says the people stood and watched. The Targum splits the crowd. The righteous stood in respect. The wicked stood in resentment. And the Aramaic names their gaze precisely - ayin hara, the evil eye, the jealous and destructive stare that rabbinic tradition considers a spiritual force of real damage.
What was their grievance? The calf was already behind them. The Levites had swept the camp. Why would anyone still resent Moses? Because the wicked in every generation resent the one who keeps walking toward God when they have stopped walking. Moses heading to the tabernacle of instruction was, to them, an indictment. Every step he took reminded them of a step they were not taking.
The Targum does not moralize. It simply records that this was the texture of the camp. Some watched in love. Some watched with hate. Both were watching the same man.
Takeaway: The path to the tent of instruction attracts both admiration and the evil eye. Walk it anyway.