申命记 23:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你在營外要有廁所，你可以出到那裡去便溺。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 在 营 外 也 该 定 出 一 个 地 方 作 为 便 所 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ When you are camped in time of war, keep away from unclean things. ¹⁰ If a man becomes unclean during the night, he must go outside the camp and not come back. ¹¹ But when evening comes, he must wash himself, and at sunset he may come back into the camp. ¹² Choose a place outside the camp where people may go to relieve themselves. ¹³ Carry a tent peg with you, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your dung. ¹⁴ The Lord your God moves around through your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies for you, so the camp must be holy. He must not see anything unclean among you so that he will not leave you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In such a vast camp as that of the Israelites - see Numbers 1:1, and Numbers 2:1, and indeed, as Scheuchzer remarks, in every well regulated camp, cleanliness is considered as indispensably necessary.

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When Abraham saw them, he ran from his tent to meet them. He bowed facedown on the ground before them

Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed facedown on the ground.

Genesis 23:7
Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The whole passage refers not to the encampments of the nation while passing from Egypt through the wilderness, but to future warlike expeditions seat out from Canaan.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 23:12. &c. — These directions may appear trifling to some, but they were essentially necessary to this people in their present circumstances. Decency and cleanliness promote health, and prevent many diseases.