Deuteronomy 23:11
And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,
Cross References
Leviticus 11:25And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when they are dead, he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun set.
Leviticus 15:5If ally man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:13If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing, and having washed his clothes, and all his body in living water, he shall be clean.
Leviticus 15:17The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening.
Psalms 51:2when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bethsabee.
Ezekiel 36:25And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.
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 →