Deuteronomy 23:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “You shall have a designated area outside the camp to which you shall go.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² You shall have a place also outside the camp to which you shall go [as a comfort station];

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² The latrines must be outside the camp. You will use them there, outside the camp.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² 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

¹² 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

“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

When evening comes, he shall wash himself with water, and when the sun has set, he may come back into the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:13

With your tools you shall have a trowel; when you relieve yourself outside, you shall dig a hole with it and then cover up your excrement.