Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure. New Living Translation “When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away from anything that is impure. English Standard Version “When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing. Berean Standard Bible When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing. King James Bible When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. New King James Version “When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. New American Standard Bible “When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall be on guard against every evil thing. NASB 1995 “When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing. NASB 1977 “When you go out as an army against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing. Legacy Standard Bible “When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing. Amplified Bible “When you go out as an army [to fight] against your enemies, you shall keep yourselves from every evil [thing]. Christian Standard Bible “When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive. Holman Christian Standard Bible When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive. American Standard Version When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. Contemporary English Version When you men go off to fight your enemies, make sure your camp is acceptable to the LORD. English Revised Version When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. GOD'S WORD® Translation When you're at war and have set up camp to fight your enemies, stay away from anything that will make you unclean. Good News Translation "When you are in camp in time of war, you are to avoid anything that would make you ritually unclean. International Standard Version "When you are encamped for battle against your enemies, be on guard against every form of impropriety. Majority Standard Bible When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing. NET Bible When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure. New Heart English Bible When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing. Webster's Bible Translation When the host goeth forth against thy enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. World English Bible When you go out and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionWhen a camp goes out against your enemies, then you have kept from every evil thing. Young's Literal Translation 'When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing. Smith's Literal Translation When the camp shall go forth against thine enemies, and watch thyself from every evil word. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleWhen thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing. Catholic Public Domain Version When you have gone out to war against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from everything that is evil. New American Bible When in camp during an expedition against your enemies, you shall keep yourselves from anything bad. New Revised Standard Version When you are encamped against your enemies you shall guard against any impropriety. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleWhen you go forth into the camp against your enemies, you shall beware of every wicked thing. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And when you go out into the camp against your enemies, beware of anything evil. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. Brenton Septuagint Translation And if thou shouldest go forth to engage with thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every wicked thing. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Uncleanness in the Camp9When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing. 10If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.… Cross References Numbers 31:19-24 All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives. / And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.” / Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses: ... Joshua 3:5 Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.” 1 Samuel 21:4-5 “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.” / David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!” 2 Samuel 11:11 Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!” Leviticus 15:31 You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth. 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 1 Peter 1:15-16 But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, / for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; ... Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. James 4:8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Psalm 24:3-4 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? / He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully. Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. Zechariah 3:3-5 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel. / So the angel said to those standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes!” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have removed your iniquity, and I will clothe you with splendid robes.” / Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him, as the angel of the LORD stood by. Treasury of Scripture When the host goes forth against your enemies, then keep you from every wicked thing. Joshua 6:18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. Joshua 7:11-13 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff… Judges 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. Jump to Previous Army Camp Encamped Enemies Evil Host Impure Kept Position Tents War WickedJump to Next Army Camp Encamped Enemies Evil Host Impure Kept Position Tents War WickedDeuteronomy 23 1. Who may or may not enter into the congregation9. Uncleanness is to be avoided in the host 15. Of the fugitive servant 17. Of filthiness 18. Of abominable sacrifices 19. Of usury 20. Of vows 24. Of trespass When you are encamped The Hebrew word for "encamped" is "חָנָה" (chanah), which means to pitch a tent or to settle temporarily. This term is often used in the context of military settings, where the Israelites would set up camp during their journeys or before a battle. The imagery here is of preparation and readiness, both physically and spiritually. In a broader sense, it reminds believers of the importance of being spiritually prepared and vigilant in their daily lives, as they navigate through a world that often opposes their faith. against your enemies then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing (9) When the host goeth forth against thine enemies . . . keep thee.--"Because Satan maketh his accusations in the hour of danger" (Rashi). (10) Uncleanness that chanceth him by night. As in Leviticus 15:16. (11) When the sun is down.--"No man is clean (after ceremonial uncleanness) except at the going down of the sun" (Rashi). (12) Without the camp.--It must not be forgotten that this is the camp of the army, not the whole encampment of Israel in the wilderness. The entire passage is continuous from Deuteronomy 23:9. Hence the whole discussion raised, after the appearance of Dr. Colenso's work, on the size of the camp of Israel and the possibility of obeying this rule, was simply waste of words, and arose out of a misunderstanding of the matter under consideration. The sanitary value of the rule has been abundantly demonstrated in our own day. (13) A paddle--rather, a pin, or spike, like that with which Jael slew Sisera. The word for "weapon" does not occur elsewhere. The LXX. translates it "a pin or tent-peg at thy girdle;" the Hebrew word (azen) being like the Greek (????). But both Targums interpret the word as "weapon," connecting it with the Hebrew zayin, which has that meaning. The hinder end of the spear in Abner's hand was sharp enough to strike Asahel a fatal blow when he followed him (2Samuel 2:23). Saul's spear also was "stuck in the ground at his bolster" (1Samuel 26:7), probably with its point upwards, by the same spike. . . . Hebrew Whenכִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction you are encamped תֵצֵ֥א (ṯê·ṣê) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim against עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against your enemies, אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ (’ō·yə·ḇe·ḵā) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary then you shall keep yourself וְנִ֨שְׁמַרְתָּ֔ (wə·niš·mar·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to from every מִכֹּ֖ל (mik·kōl) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every wicked רָֽע׃ (rā‘) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7451: Bad, evil thing. דָּבָ֥ר (dā·ḇār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause Links Deuteronomy 23:9 NIVDeuteronomy 23:9 NLT Deuteronomy 23:9 ESV Deuteronomy 23:9 NASB Deuteronomy 23:9 KJV Deuteronomy 23:9 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 23:9 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 23:9 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 23:9 French Bible Deuteronomy 23:9 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 23:9 When you go forth in camp against (Deut. 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