Commentary for Menachot 189:18

ורמינהי הוגללו הפרוכת הותרו הזבין ומצורעין ליכנס לשם אמר רב אשי לא קשיא הא ר' אליעזר הא רבנן דתניא

for should you hold that the Tabernacle could not be dismantled for journeying at night, but it was taken to parts only in the morning, then why [did the consecrated things become invalid] on the ground of being taken outside the Tabernacle? Surely they became invalid by being kept overnight! Is not this obvious? Holy Writ expressly says, That they might go by day and by night!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XIII, 21.');">²⁰</span> - I might have thought that that was so<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That they journeyed by night.');">²¹</span> only when they had already set out by day, but if they had not set out by day they would not set out at night; we are therefore taught [that it was not so]. I can point out a contradiction [to the above teaching].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which stated that those afflicted with an issue and lepers were still excluded from the camp even when the Tabernacle was dismantled.');">²²</span> [It was taught:]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ta'an. 21b.');">²³</span> As soon as the curtains [of the Tabernacle] were folded up those that had an issue and lepers were permitted to enter [into the camp]! - R'Ashi said, This is no difficulty, for one [Baraitha]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The latter Baraitha.');">²⁴</span> represents the view of R'Eliezer, the other the view of the Rabbis. For it was taught:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pes. 67b.');">²⁵</span>

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