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Deuteronomy 23:12

You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

13And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:16When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will 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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