Deuteronomy 23:9-14
New American Standard Bible
9 “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.
12 “You shall also have a place allocated outside the camp, so that you may go out there to relieve yourself, 13 and you shall have a [d]spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn and cover up your excrement. 14 Since (B)the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to save you and to [e]defeat your enemies before you, your camp must be (C)holy; so He must not see [f]anything indecent among you [g]or He will turn away from you.
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- Deuteronomy 23:9 Or a camp
- Deuteronomy 23:10 Lit come to the midst of
- Deuteronomy 23:11 Lit come to the midst of
- Deuteronomy 23:13 Lit peg
- Deuteronomy 23:14 Lit give
- Deuteronomy 23:14 Lit nakedness of anything
- Deuteronomy 23:14 Lit and
Deuteronomy 23:9-14
Common English Bible
Rules for the war camp
9 When you are camped in battle against your enemies, guard yourself from every possible evil. 10 If an individual in the camp becomes polluted due to a nighttime emission, he must exit the camp area and not reenter. 11 When the next evening arrives, he must wash with water; and when the sun sets, he can come back to the camp.
12 The latrines[a] must be outside the camp. You will use them there, outside the camp. 13 Carry a shovel with the rest of your gear; once you have relieved yourself, use it to dig a hole, then refill it, covering your excrement.
14 Do these things because the Lord your God travels with you, right in the middle of your camp, ready to save you and to hand your enemies over to you. For this reason your camp must be holy. The Lord must not see anything indecent among you, or he will turn away from you.
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- Deuteronomy 23:12 LXX, Syr, Vulg place of the hand (a euphemism); MT has only hand.
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