Deuteronomy 23:10
If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it:
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9When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.
11But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:16And if a man's seed goes out from him, then all his body will have to be bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.
Joshua 6:18And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:10-15
Moral and Ceremonial Purity Enjoined. ( b. c. 1451.) 9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. 10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp,… Read the whole commentary →