“but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 23 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.