Commentary for Zevachim 232:19

הי מינייהו לא הוה אמר רבה מסתברא דמחנה לויה הואי דאי סלקא דעתך מחנה לויה לא הואי

Yet the texts are still contradictory, for there it was silver and here it was gold? - Say rather: He collected silver to the value [weight] of six hundred [shekels of] gold. LESSER SACRIFICES WERE EATEN ANYWHERE IN THE CAMP OF THE ISRAELITES. R'Huna said: [This means,] wherever the Israelites were, but there was no camp.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is now assumed to mean that one could eat lesser sacrifices even if he went out of the camp of the Israelites.');">¹⁷</span> R'Nahman refuted R'Huna: Were there no camps in the wilderness? Surely it was taught: Just as there were camps in the wilderness, so there was a camp in Jerusalem. From [the walls of] Jerusalem to the Temple Mount was the camp of the Israelites; from the Temple Mount to the Gate of Nicanor<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The east gate of the Temple court.');">¹⁸</span> was the Levitical camp; beyond that was the camp of the Shechinah, and that corresponded to [the place within] the curtains in the wilderness! - Say rather, wherever the camp of the Israelites was.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If they broke camp and pitched their camp elsewhere, a sacrifice which had been offered at the former site could be eaten in the new site.');">¹⁹</span> That is obvious? - You might say, it is disqualified through having gone out. Therefore he informs us [otherwise]. Yet say that it is indeed so? - Scripture saith, Then the tent of meeting shall set forward:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. II, 17.');">²⁰</span> even when it sets forward, it is still the 'tent of meeting'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 61b. Hence the camps even in travelling are regarded as camps.');">²¹</span> It was taught, R'Simeon B'Yohai said: Yet another place was there, [viz.] the Women's Court,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This did not have the status either of the Temple Mount or of the Temple court.');">²²</span> and no penalty was imposed on its account.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One was not punished for entering it whilst unclean.');">²³</span> But at Shiloh there were only two camps. Which was absent? - Said Abaye:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Emended text (Sh.M.) . Cur. edd. Rabbah.');">²⁴</span> It is logical that there was certainly the Levitical camp; for if you should think that there was no Levitical camp,

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