Numbers 11:24
"And Moses went out, and spoke the words of the Lord to the people; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and he set them round about the tabernacle."
Is there a Bible contradiction in Numbers 11:24?
Contrasting Link: Numbers 2:2 →
Numbers 11:24—Was the tabernacle outside the camp of Israel or inside it?
Problem: Numbers 2 places the tabernacle inside the camp, but here in Numbers 11:24 (cf. 12:4) it is said to be outside the camp.
Solution: It was both. The twelve tribes were camped around the tabernacle (Num. 2:3, 10, 18, 25), with a space between them and the tabernacle in the center (Num. 2:2). Hence, to get to the tabernacle they would have to go “outside” their camping area. And yet the tabernacle was literally “in the middle” of them.