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העלו GET YOU UP [FROM ABOUT THE DWELLING OF KORAH] — Understand this as the Targum does: withdraw from the vicinity of Korah’s dwelling.

דבר אל העדה לאמר העלו מסביב, Moses now spelled out what he had meant when he said הבדלו in verse 21. He had meant that the people should only put distance between themselves and the supporters of Korach.

דבר אל העדה לאמור, "speak to the congregation to say, etc." It appears unusual that G'd uses the relatively harsh דבר when the thrust of the message is to save the people from death. He did so in order to demonstrate that He minded terribly that there were Jews who were so careless with their lives that they risked it by not removing themselves from immediate danger. This is why G'd not only employed the tough דבר, but repeated the word לאמור in verse 25 to ensure that the message would get across to the people. G'd demonstrated how important it was to Him that this precious people not be diminished in numbers. The repetition of the word לאמור may mean that the exact wording of G'd's message was left to Moses. If he did not want to phrase it so harshly he was at liberty to do so. As long as the result of the way Moses relayed G'd's message was העלו that the people would remove themselves from around the tents of these rebels this was all that mattered. In fact, Moses did make some changes when he did not mention Korach by name but referred only to "these wicked people (verse 26)."

העלו מסביב למשכן קרח, דתן ואבירם, “get yourselves up from around the dwelling of no one, and Datan and Aviram respectively!” Actually, the Torah should have included in its call for the people to remove their presence from the vicinity of Korach, On, son of Peles, seeing he had figured by name as one of the instigators of the rebellion in verse one of our chapter. Our sages view the failure of the Torah to mention On at this point as proof that he had withdrawn from the rebellion and had done תשובה, had repented his former part in it.
Tanchuma Korach 10 claims that On had been saved by his wife who had said to him: “what difference does it make to you personally if Moses is High Priest or whether Aaron is High Priest seeing that in either event you will only be the student, i.e. subordinate to either of them? Concerning the wife of On (and others like her) Solomon said in Proverbs 14,1: “the wisest of women builds her house, i.e. the wife of On, whereas “folly tears it down with its own hands,” a reference to the wife of Korach who had inflamed his ego when she first belittled the halachah about a blue woolen talit requiring tzitziyot. She became the immediate cause of the rebellion and the death of hundreds (compare Proverbs 7,26).

Depart. Thus העלו ("ascend") is the same meaning as in “יצועי עלה" ("ascended my couch") (Bereishis 49:4). The lamed of למשכן (lit. to the dwelling) is superfluous. Consequently, Rashi writes סביבות ("the vicinity") instead of סביב ("around") to enable it to refer it to the word “dwelling,” given that the word סביב cannot be connected with what follows.

V. 24. העלו וגו׳: durch dieses Entfernen sollten sie sich von der Gemeinschaft mit den Empörern lossagen und ihrהקהל על משה ואהרן sühnen.

Of the dwelling of Korach. However, the 250 men were saved from being swallowed into the earth because their intention was for the sake of Heaven. Moreover, they were enticed by Korach to enter into the dispute in the first place. Their entire sin was in coming too close to bring offerings to Hashem, and so their households were not punished.