12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
12 "You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.
12 Mark out an area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourselves.
12 Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out;
12 "You must have a designated area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:12
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.