Deuteronomy 23:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Sanitary, Ritual, and Humanitarian Precepts

⁹ “When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

¹⁰ “If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what chances to him by night, then he shall go outside the camp, he shall not come within the camp; ¹¹ but when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.