9. When you are camped in battle against your enemies, guard yourself from every possible evil.
10. If an individual in the camp becomes polluted due to a nighttime emission, he must exit the camp area and not reenter.
11. When the next evening arrives, he must wash with water; and when the sun sets, he can come back to the camp.
12. The latrines must be outside the camp. You will use them there, outside the camp.
13. Carry a shovel with the rest of your gear; once you have relieved yourself, use it to dig a hole, then refill it, covering your excrement.
14. Do these things because the Lord your God travels with you, right in the middle of your camp, ready to save you and to hand your enemies over to you. For this reason your camp must be holy. The Lord must not see anything indecent among you, or he will turn away from you.
15. Don’t return slaves to owners if they’ve escaped and come to you.
16. They can stay with you: in your own community or in any place they select from one of your cities, whatever seems good to them. Don’t oppress them.
17. No Israelite daughter is allowed to be a consecrated worker. Neither is any Israelite son allowed to be a consecrated worker.
18. Don’t bring a female prostitute’s fee or a male prostitute’s payment to the Lord your God’s temple to pay a solemn promise because both of these things are detestable to the Lord your God.
19. Don’t charge your fellow Israelites interest—whether on money, provisions, or anything one might loan.
20. You can charge foreigners interest, but not your fellow Israelite. Do this so that the Lord your God blesses you in all your work on the land you are entering to possess.
21. When you make a promise to the Lord your God, don’t put off making good on it, because the Lord your God will certainly be expecting it from you; delaying would make you guilty.
22. Now if you simply don’t make any promises, you won’t be guilty of anything.