“When you go out as [a]an army against your enemies, you shall be on guard against every evil thing.

10 (A)If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not [b]reenter the camp. 11 But when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may [c]reenter the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:9 Or a camp
  2. Deuteronomy 23:10 Lit come to the midst of
  3. Deuteronomy 23:11 Lit come to the midst of

Uncleanness in the Camp

When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.(A) 10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.(B) 11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset(C) he may return to the camp.(D)

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