Midrash
Midrash Tanchuma (Buber), Nasso 28 מדרש תנחומא (בובר), נשא כ״ח
Part of: Siman 28
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ויהי ביום כלות משה, כלת כתיב, ביום שנכנסת כלה לחופה.
(Numb. 7:1:) SO IT CAME TO PASS ON THE DAY THAT MOSES HAD FINISHED (kallot). Kallat (which means "bride of") is <what is really> written.124Tanh., Numb. 2:26, end; PRK 5:1; see especially Numb. R. 12:8, end, which greatly expands this interpretation. <Thus the passage would allude> to the day that a bride (kallah) enters the wedding canopy.125In other words, Israel (or possibly Torah) is the bride of the Holy One, and the Tabernacle, her wedding canopy.
(Numb. 7:1:) SO IT CAME TO PASS ON THE DAY THAT MOSES HAD FINISHED (kallot). Kallat (which means "bride of") is <what is really> written.124Tanh., Numb. 2:26, end; PRK 5:1; see especially Numb. R. 12:8, end, which greatly expands this interpretation. <Thus the passage would allude> to the day that a bride (kallah) enters the wedding canopy.125In other words, Israel (or possibly Torah) is the bride of the Holy One, and the Tabernacle, her wedding canopy.