Deuteronomy 23:12

Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

13Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover

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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.

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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