Reference for Kiddushin 74:3

במאי קמיפלגי בקירבו נסכים במדבר קא מיפלגי ר' ישמעאל סבר לא קירבו נסכים במדבר ור"ע סבר קירבו נסכים במדבר

Moreover, as to what you say: 'Behold the Sabbath, in connection with which "dwellings" is stated' - the Sabbath is inferred a minori. Wherein do they differ? - In whether they offered libations in the wilderness: R'Ishmael maintains that they did not offer libations in the wilderness, whereas R'Akiba holds that they did offer libations in the wilderness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus: (explaining R. Akiba first:) since libations were offered in the wilderness (naturally at the public bamah, for private bamoth were at that time forbidden) , the verse under discussion cannot teach that libations would be required at the public bamoth when they entered Palestine, for they were already obligatory before them. Hence it can refer only to the private bamoth during the fourteen years of conquest and allotment (for thereafter private bamoth were illegal) ; and so dwelling must be an extension, implying wherever you dwell. According to R. Ishmael, however, the verse can teach that libations would be incumbent at the public bamoth, for hitherto, in the wilderness, they had been forbidden (and the fact that public bamoth are now referred to follows from the plural 'you', as stated on p. 182, n. 4) ; consequently 'dwelling' can only mean after settling down.');">³</span>

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