KJV King James Version
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:
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Deuteronomy 23:10
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:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
WEB World English Bible
If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp:
ASV American Standard Version
If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘When there is in thee a man who is not clean, from an accident at night—then he hath gone out unto the outside of the camp—he doth not come in unto the midst of the camp—
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 23
7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he [is] thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
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:
11 But 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].
12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
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כִּֽי־H3588 · kiforיִהְיֶ֤הH1961 · ha.yahto beבְךָ֙H9031 · kayouאִ֔ישׁH376 · ishmanאֲשֶׁ֛רH834 · a.sherwhichלֹא־H3808 · lonotיִהְיֶ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beטָה֖וֹרH2889 · ta.horpureמִקְּרֵה־H7137 · qa.rehaccidentלָ֑יְלָהH3915 · lay.lahnightוְיָצָא֙H3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)מִח֣וּץH2351 · chutsoutsideלַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔הH4264 · ma.cha.nehcampלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotיָבֹ֖אH935 · boto come (in): comeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)תּ֥וֹךְH8432 · ta.vekhmidstהַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃H4264 · ma.cha.nehcamp
Cross-references
Leviticus 15:16And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.Numbers 5:2-3Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:1 Corinthians 5:11-13But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
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