Deuteronomy 23:10
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New International Version (©2011)
If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.

International Standard Version (©2012)
If someone among you becomes unclean due to nocturnal emissions, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

NET Bible (©2006)
If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If one of your men becomes unclean from a nocturnal emission, he must go outside the camp and stay there.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
If there be among you any man, that is unclean by reason of some occurrence in the night, then shall he go outside the camp, he shall not come inside the camp:

American King James Version
If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chances him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

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:

Douay-Rheims Bible
If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.

Darby Bible Translation
If there be with thee a man that is not clean from what hath happened in the night, then shall he go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp;

English Revised 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:

Webster's Bible Translation
If there shall be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth to him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

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:

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 --

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:9-14 The camp of the Lord must have nothing offensive in it. If there must be this care taken to preserve the body clean, much more should we be careful to keep the mind pure.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If there be among you any man that is not clean,.... Any unclean person in the army, that was even ceremonially unclean in any of the instances the law makes so, one of which put for the rest is mentioned:

by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night; through pollution by a nocturnal flux, as the Septuagint version, or a gonorrhoea, an involuntary one, occasioned by impure thoughts and imaginations in dreams; the same case as in Leviticus 15:16.

then shall he go abroad out of the camp; out of the army, lest others should be defiled by such; they not having houses to retire to, and chambers to keep themselves in separate from others, as when at home:

he shall not come within the camp; that is, not till he has done what is prescribed him in the next verse. Jarchi says, he might not come into the camp of the Levites, and much less into the camp of God.

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Uncleanness in the Camp
9When the host goes forth against your enemies, then keep you from every wicked thing. 10If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chances 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 comes on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. …

Leviticus 15:16 "'When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
Deuteronomy 23:9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.
Deuteronomy 23:11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.