12 "You shall also have a place outside e the camp and go out there , 13 and you shall have a spade among your tools , and it shall be when you sit down outside , you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement . 14 "Since the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy ; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:12-14
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:9-14
(Read Deuteronomy 23:9-14)
The camp of the Lord must have nothing offensive in it. If there must be this care taken to preserve the body clean, much more should we be careful to keep the mind pure.