Deuteronomy 23:12

You shall have a place also outside of the camp where you go relieve yourself.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

13You shall have a trowel amongst your weapons. It shall be, when you relieve yourself, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover your excrement;

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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.

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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