Deuteronomy 23:9
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New International Version (©2011)
When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away from anything that is impure.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"When you are encamped for battle against your enemies, be on guard against every form of impropriety.

NET Bible (©2006)
When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When you're at war and have set up camp to fight your enemies, stay away from anything that will make you unclean.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
When the army goes forth against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

American King James Version
When the host goes forth against your enemies, then keep you from every wicked thing.

American Standard Version
When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.

Darby Bible Translation
When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies, then keep thee from every evil thing.

English Revised Version
When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.

Webster's Bible Translation
When the host goeth forth against thy enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

World English Bible
When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.

Young's Literal Translation
'When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing.

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

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies,.... An army of soldiers march in order to meet the enemy and fight him:

then keep thee from every wicked thing; the Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation,"from strange worship, uncovering of nakedness, and from shedding innocent blood;''that is, from idolatry, uncleanness of every sort, and murder; and all other wickednesses ought to be abstained from at all times by all persons, but especially by soldiers in such a circumstance, just going to battle; since sin committed weakens natural courage, as it loads the conscience with guilt; and since victory and success, which depend upon the blessing of God on arms, cannot be reasonably expected, where vices of all sorts are indulged and abound; and especially seeing such are about to expose their lives to the utmost danger, and know not but that in a few hours they must exchange this life for another, and appear before God, the Judge of all, against whom they sin; and yet how little are these things thought of by such in common! it was the wisdom of the Jewish legislature, which was of God, to inculcate such things into the minds of their soldiers.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9-14. When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing—from the excesses incident to camp life, as well as from habits of personal neglect and impurity.

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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. …

Deuteronomy 23:8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.