13 and you shall have a [a]spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn [b]to cover up your excrement. 14 Since (A)the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to [c]defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be (B)holy; and He must not see [d]anything indecent among you [e]or He will turn away from you.

15 (C)You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has [f]escaped from his master to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:13 Lit peg
  2. Deuteronomy 23:13 Lit and
  3. Deuteronomy 23:14 Lit give
  4. Deuteronomy 23:14 Lit nakedness of anything
  5. Deuteronomy 23:14 Lit and
  6. Deuteronomy 23:15 Lit delivered himself