Deuteronomy 23:12

And you have a station at the outside of the camp, and you have gone out there outside;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11and it has been, at the turning of the evening, he bathes with water, and at the going in of the sun he comes into the midst of the camp.

13and you have a peg on your staff, and it has been, in your sitting outside, that you have dug with it, and turned back, and covered your filth.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:16And when a man’s seed [from] intercourse goes out from him, then he has bathed all his flesh with water, and been 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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