'Camp' in the Bible
Now thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley, until that entire generation of the men of war had died from within the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.
Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp, until they were all dead.
“You shall not do at all what we are doing here [in the camp] today, every man doing whatever is right in his [own] eyes.
“When you go out as an army [to fight] against your enemies, you shall keep yourselves from every evil [thing].
“If there is any man among you who is [ceremonially] unclean because of nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he shall not come back to the camp.
But when evening comes, he shall bathe in water, and at sundown he may return to the camp.
“You shall also have a place outside the camp to which you may go,
Since the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to rescue you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy (undefiled); and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.
your little ones, your wives, and the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your camps, from the one who chops and gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water—