Deuteronomy 23:9-14

International Standard Version

Community Sanitation

⁹ “When you are encamped for battle against your enemies, be on guard against every form of impropriety. ¹⁰ If someone among you becomes unclean due to nocturnal emissions, he must leave the camp and stay outside. ¹¹ As evening approaches, he must wash himself with water. Then at sunset, he may return to the camp.

¹² “Choose a place outside the camp for a latrine. ¹³ Include a spade among your equipment so that when you squat to relieve yourself, you can dig a hole and then cover your excrement. ¹⁴ For the Lord your God is on the move within your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you. Therefore, your camp must be holy so that he will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.”