Deuteronomy 23:10

If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

9When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.

11And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:16The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Joshua 6:18But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are forbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of Israel be under sin, and be troubled.

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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