Deuteronomy 23:12

but at eventide let him wash with water, and at sunset he may come into the camp.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11If there be among thee a man who is not clean, by an accident of the night, let him go forth without the camp, let him not enter into the midst of the camp,

13And a place shall be appointed for thee outside of the camp, that thou mayest go thither without.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:16And if seed of copulation go out from a man, he shall wash all his flesh with water, and 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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