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Deuteronomy 23:13-15
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Deuteronomy 23:13-15
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13 You must have a spade among your other equipment, and when you relieve yourself[a] outside you must dig a hole with the spade[b] and then turn and cover your excrement.[c] 14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat[d] your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent[e] among you and turn away from you.
Purity in the Treatment of the Unprivileged
15 You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.[f]
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- Deuteronomy 23:13 tn Heb “sit.” This expression is euphemistic.
- Deuteronomy 23:13 tn Heb “with it”; the referent (the spade mentioned at the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Deuteronomy 23:13 tn Heb “what comes from you,” a euphemism.
- Deuteronomy 23:14 tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”
- Deuteronomy 23:14 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (ʿervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.
- Deuteronomy 23:15 tn The Hebrew text includes “from his master,” but this would be redundant in English style.
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