Deuteronomy 23:12

12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

Deuteronomy 23:12 in Other Translations

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

12 "You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.

12 “You must have a designated area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

12 Mark out an area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourselves.

12 You must have a place outside the camp and go there [to relieve yourself].

Deuteronomy 23:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 23:12

Thou shalt have also a place without the camp
A place prepared, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, provided on purpose for the use hereafter suggested; so Ben Melech:

whither thou shalt go forth abroad;
to do the necessities of nature, which they were to do without the camp, not in any place they thought fit and most convenient, but what was appointed for that purpose.

Deuteronomy 23:12 In-Context

10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.

11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.