Deuteronomy 23:13

_AND THOU SHALT HAVE A PADDLE UPON THY WEAPON; AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN THOU WILT EASE THYSELF ABROAD, THOU SHALT DIG THEREWITH, AND SHALT TURN BACK AND COVER THAT WHICH COMETH FROM THEE:_ Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon, х_ WªYAATEED_ (H3489) _ TIHªYEH_ (H1961) _ LªKAA_ (H3807a) _ `AL _ (H5921) _ 'AZEENEKAA_ (H240)] - and a little spade shall be to thee (thou shalt have a little spade) among thy furniture [where many MSS. read 'al 'ªzineeykaa, among thy utensils, which is preferable (Gesenius). The Septuagint has: kai passalos estai soi epi tees xoonees-and a peg (stake) shall be on thy girdle.] Turkish soldiers are said to carry an implement similar to that with which every Israelite was enjoined to furnish himself; and the 'Punjaub Sanitary Repo

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....

The whole passage refers not to the encampments of the nation while passing from Egypt through the wilderness, but to future warlike expeditions seat out from Canaan....

EXPOSITION CIVIL RIGHTS. WHO MAY AND WHO MAY NOT ENTER INTO THE CONGREGATION. UNCLEANNESS IN THE CAMP TO BE AVOIDED. RECEPTION OF FUGITIVE SLAVES. LICENTIOUS PERSONS TO BE REMOVED, AND GIFTS THE PRICE OF IMPURITY TO BE REFUSED. LAWS REGARDING USURY, VOWS, AND

AND THOU SHALT HAVE A PADDLE UPON THY WEAPON,.... A nail or spike, some kind of instrument to make a hole in the ground with, which was fastened to the sword upon their loins; which was to be instead of a spade or mattock to dig with: AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN THOU SHALL EASE THYSELF ABROAD; without the camp, in the place appointed for that use, whenever nature required such an action to be performed; THOU SHALL DIG THEREWITH; with, the paddle, an hole in the earth: the Essenes used, according to Josephus, to make it a foot deep with a spade or mattock, and to everyone that was newly admitted among them, a little pickaxe was given for that purpose r: AND SHALT TURN BACK; having eased nature: AND COVER THAT WHICH COMETH FROM THEE; their dung, with the earth they dug out of the hole they made. This law was made to preserve modesty and decency becoming men, and not act like brute beasts, as...

19. THE CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH AND ITS CONSTITUTION AND HOLINESS CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The constitution of the congregation of Jehovah (Deuteronomy 23:1)_ 2. The cleanness of the camp in time of war (Deuteronomy 23:9) 3. Concerning the escaped slave and the harlot (Deuteronomy 23:15) 4. Usury forbidden (Deuteronomy 23:19) 5. Concerning vows (Deuteronomy 23:21) 6. The neighbor's vineyard and field ...

ANOTHER SECTION DEALING WITH WAR (see Deuteronomy 20:1; Deuteronomy 21:10). Regulations for securing the ceremonial purity of the camp (see Numbers 5:2 (P)). The reason stated (Deuteronomy 23:14) is that Yahweh is in the camp (_cf. Deuteronomy 20:1_); Schwally and others suspect that the original motive is the belief that impurity attracted evil spirits. [J. G. Frazer (_Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 158f.) points out that the rules of ceremonial purity, by which the Hebrew warriors were bound, are identica

PADDLE. blade. WEAPON. staff. WILT EASE. Hebrew sit down. Beautiful _Euphemy_ (App-6), when dealing with physical uncleanness, but plain speaking when dealing with moral uncleanness....

_VER._ 13. _THOU SHALT HAVE A PADDLE,_ &C.— See Fuller's Miscellanea Sacra, lib. 6: cap. 5. The Turks, we are told, still use the same cleanliness in their camp. In all the intercourses of life, there cannot be too great a regard to natural decency, whereto this law has an immediate reference, as well as to health, to the awefulness of God's presence, to charity and friendship, lest it should be an offence to any one: and besides, this outward discipline conveyed a moral instruction; warning them, if God was thus careful for external decency, how much more so would he be for that which is internal. _Note;_ 1. They who provoke God by their sins, can with little reason expect a blessing on their arms. 2. Cleanliness is next to godliness: a slut or a sloven is ever a slothful person; and neglect of decency and neatness, is not only want of sense, but want of grace. 3. The cleanliness of a c...

(2) TEMPORARY EXCLUSION FOR EGYPTIANS, MOABITES AND PHYSICALLY UNCLEAN (Deuteronomy 23:7-14) 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land. 8 The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah. 9 When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. 10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 but it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad; 13 and thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and