English: “Outside the camp” — outside the three camps.
In the sugya: The phrase “outside the camp” is interpreted as requiring removal beyond all three concentric camps of Israel: the camp of the Shechinah, the camp of the Leviim, and the camp of Israel.
Type of Learning
Three-camp distance for burning — the High Priest’s bull is burned outside all three camps of Israel.
What Is Learned
The burning site of the chatas bull must lie beyond the outermost of the three camps. The Gemara’s reading of “mi-chutz la-machaneh” as “outside three camps” fixes the geographic minimum: the animal may not be burned within the Israelite encampment, the Levitical area, or the Sanctuary precincts.