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Deuteronomy 23:10

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23:10If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission,16 he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

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  1. 16 Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16–18; 22:4.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“If there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission during the night, he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp.

KJV 1900King James Version

If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: