seekeroftruth
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Deuteronomy 23:9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure. 10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there. 11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
I knew this was in the Bible. I just couldn't remember where.
This is from the easy English commentary.
Laws about health were important. The principle in the law was this. Anything that comes from a person’s body is ‘unclean’. The Israelites must have clean bodies and clean clothes. They must bury carefully the waste from their bodies. If camps were not clean, then disease would spread very quickly. God was present in the camp. If they did not keep the camp holy and clean, God would not stay with them.
This commentary is from bibletrack.org.
O water closet! Where art thou?
When you gotta go, you gotta go! However, when you're fighting a war, nobody likes a messy camp! Here are some laws that regulate even that aspect of daily life. You gotta bury your business outside the camp.
When you gotta go, you gotta go! However, when you're fighting a war, nobody likes a messy camp! Here are some laws that regulate even that aspect of daily life. You gotta bury your business outside the camp.
Remember, please, there were over 2 million people in the group that left Egypt. This was a large group of people. There was no indoor plumbing.
This comment is from the https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/guzik_david/StudyGuide2017-Deu/Deu-23.cfm.
Some ancient rabbis taught that the holy city of Jerusalem should be considered "the camp of the LORD." Under this reasoning, one had to go outside the camp to relieve one's self. However, for many people, the trip outside the large "camp" of Israel (the city of Jerusalem) was longer than what would be permitted on the Sabbath. Therefore, as a practical matter, the rabbis prohibited a Jew from relieving themselves on the Sabbath day.
I don't think that's what God had in mind. How could anyone be expected to go without relieving themselves from sun up to sun down? Stupid humans come up with the most ridiculous notions..... banning poop inside the city walls makes sense.... banning pooping one day a week is stupid!
