Keeping the Camp Clean

⁹ When you are camped ·in time of war [^Lagainst your enemies], keep away from ·unclean things [foulness; ^La bad/evil thing; ^Creferring to ritual uncleanness]. ¹⁰ If a man becomes unclean during the night, he must go outside the camp and not come back [^Creferring to an emission of semen; Lev. 15:16]. ¹¹ But when evening comes, he must wash himself, and at sunset he may come back into the camp.

¹² Choose a place outside the camp where people may go ·to relieve themselves [^Loutside]. ¹³ ·Carry a tent peg with you [^LAs part of your equipment have a tent peg/or trowel with you], and when you ·relieve yourself [squat; ^Lsit], dig a hole and cover up your ·dung [excrement]. ¹⁴ The Lord your God ·moves [walks] around through your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies for you, so the camp must be holy. He must not see anything ·unclean [indecent] among you so that he will not leave you.