Deuteronomy 23:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You shall have a place also outside the camp to which you shall go [as a comfort station];

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The latrines must be outside the camp. You will use them there, outside the camp.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You shall have a place beyond the camp to which you may go for the necessities of nature,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,

Deuteronomy 23:12 Cross References

Leviticus 15:16

“And if a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Deuteronomy 23:11

but when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:13

and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and turn back and cover up your excrement.