Deuteronomy 23:12

You shall have a place beyond the camp to which you may go for the necessities of nature,

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In The King James Version

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

In Context

11And he shall not return before the evening, after he has washed with water, and then, after the sun sets, he shall return to the camp.

13carrying a small shovel at your belt. And when you would sit down, you shall dig around, and then, with the soil that was dug up, you shall cover

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:16A man from whom the seed of sexual intercourse goes out shall wash his entire body with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

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 →

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