Deuteronomy 23:12
Good News Translation
"You are to have a place outside the camp where you can go when you need to relieve yourselves.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall have a designated area outside the camp to which you shall go.

Contemporary English Version
Set up a place outside the camp to be used as a toilet area.

New American Bible
Outside the camp you shall have a place set aside where you shall go.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,

Numbers 1 and

Deuteronomy 23:2 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.

) and indeed, as Schuchzer remarks, in every well regulated camp, cleanliness is considered as indispensably necessary.

Context
Uncleanness in the Camp
11And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp. 12Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,13Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:11
And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:13
Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt cover

Deuteronomy 23:11
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