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Deuteronomy 23:10 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 23 · verse 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:Deuteronomy 23:10 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 23:10 in context
8The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
9When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
10If 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:
11But 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.
12Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- chancethqârehan occurrenceH7137 →
- abroadchûwtsproperly, separate by awallH2351 →
- withintâveka bisectionH8432 →
- cleanṭâhôwrpureH2889 →
- nightlayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
- campmachănehan encampmentH4264 →
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Israel was now encamped, and this vast army was just entering upon action, which was likely to keep them together for a long time, and therefore it was fit to give them particular directions for the good ordering of their camp. And the charge is in one word to be clean.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-14