Charles Ellicott Commentary Numbers 16:24

"Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." — Numbers 16:24 (ASV)

Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (Numbers 16:24)—It is not easy to determine what is the meaning of the word mishkan (tabernacle) in Numbers 16:24 and Numbers 16:27. The word, in the singular number, commonly denotes the tabernacle of the congregation—i.e., the boarded structure which was covered by the ohel, or tent.

The word means simply a “dwelling-place,” and it may denote in Numbers 16:24 and Numbers 16:27 a rival tabernacle which had been erected by Korah and the other conspirators; or it may denote, in a collective sense, the tent of Korah, which may have been defiantly pitched near that of the Reubenites, and also the tents of Dathan and Abiram, which were in proximity to those of the Kohathites, but further removed from the Tabernacle. The substitution of the word “tents” in Numbers 16:26, in which Moses delivers to the people the command contained in Numbers 16:24, seems to favour the latter of these explanations.