Deuteronomy 23:9-14

The Voice

⁹ When you go to fight your enemies, maintain strict standards of moral and ritual decency in your camp. ¹⁰ If a man becomes ritually impure because of a nocturnal emission, he can’t remain in the camp. He has to stay outside that day. ¹¹ But when evening comes, once he’s washed himself in water, he may come back into the camp at sunset which begins the new day. ¹² Designate an area outside the camp as a latrine. ¹³ When you go there to relieve yourself, bring the spade you carry with your equipment and turn the soil to cover your excrement. ¹⁴ Treat your camp as a sacred place because the Eternal your God will be walking around in it. He travels with your army to bring you victory and defeat your enemies. If He saw something indecent, He’d leave the camp.