Bible verse
And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
Deuteronomy 23:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 23.
9 When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
10 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
11 When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.
12 You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.
13 And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
14 For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
15 Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
16 Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
KJV
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:
ASV
and thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
ERV
and thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
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