New Century Version

Deuteronomy 23:11-19 New Century Version (NCV)

11. But when evening comes, he must wash himself, and at sunset he may come back into the camp.

12. Choose a place outside the camp where people may go to relieve themselves.

13. Carry a tent peg with you, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your dung.

14. The Lord your God moves around through your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies for you, so the camp must be holy. He must not see anything unclean among you so that he will not leave you.

15. If an escaped slave comes to you, do not hand over the slave to his master.

16. Let the slave live with you anywhere he likes, in any town he chooses. Do not mistreat him.

17. No Israelite man or woman must ever become a temple prostitute.

18. Do not bring a male or female prostitute’s pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord, because the Lord your God hates prostitution.

19. If you loan your fellow Israelites money or food or anything else, don’t make them pay back more than you loaned them.