申命記23:9-14

23:9 「你出兵攻打仇敵，就要遠避諸惡。
23:10 「你們中間，若有人夜間偶然夢遺，不潔淨，就要出到營外，不可入營；
23:11 到傍晚的時候，他要用水洗澡，及至日落了才可以入營。
23:12 「你在營外也該定出一個地方作為便所。
23:13 在你器械之中當預備一把鍬，你出營外便溺以後，用以鏟土，轉身掩蓋。
23:14 因為耶和華─你的上帝常在你營中行走，要救護你，將仇敵交給你，所以你的營理當聖潔，免得他見你那裡有污穢，就離開你。」

⁹ When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure. ¹⁰ If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there. ¹¹ But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

¹² Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. ¹³ As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. ¹⁴ For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

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    在近東一代有一種觀念，打勝仗是因為所敬拜的神明的法力所造成的，所以要維持軍隊的潔淨，好保持神明的同在，才會打勝仗！

    以色列人也有這樣的看法，所以他們會認為：「因為耶和華─你的上帝常在你營中行走，要救護你，將仇敵交給你，所以你的營理當聖潔，免得他見你那裡有污穢，就離開你。」

    說到士兵要預備一把鍬，出營外便溺以後，用以鏟土，轉身掩蓋！想到服兵役時，我們的裝備中真的有一把鍬，除了要挖壕溝，就是要挖廁所，便溺以後要馬上掩蓋。

    當然聖潔會帶給人健康，生命愉快，我們更可以藉此榮耀上帝！