Numbers 16:24

the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram This strange expression, which recurs in Numbers 16:27, has resulted from the combination of the narratives. The test is arranged at the door of the sacred Tent of Jehovah (Numbers 16:18), and all the congregation are assembled there. The word -tabernacle" (mishkân) is never used of ordinary human dwellings1 [Note: Except in the plural in one poetical passage, Numbers 24:5.]. And the singular here would imply that Korah, Dathan, and Abiram all lived in the same tent, which is negatived by Numbers 16:26. The original reading must either have been simply -the tabernacle" or more probably the tabernacle of Jehovah.