The whole passage refers not to the encampments of the nation while passing from Egypt through the wilderness, but to future warlike expeditions se…

Deuteronomy 23:9–14. PURITY OF THE CAMP.

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies ... keep t…

If there be among you. He enumerates two kinds of pollution, by which the Israelites may know what is meant by their keeping from the “wic…

If there be among you any man that is not clean
Any unclean person in the army, that was even ceremonially unclean i…

The camp of the Lord must have nothing offensive in it. If this care must be taken to preserve the body clean, much more should we be careful to ke…