Deuteronomy 23:10
If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
9When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:16“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Joshua 6:18But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
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 →