Week 61, Day 4: Your camp must be holy
Today’s Reading: Deut 23:1-25
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
This chapter mentions an instruction that seems a little strange at first. The instruction is for an Israelite to carry a spade with them when they go to use the bathroom. Thus they were instructed to cover up the excrement. The reason given for the command is that God walks in their midst and they must be holy (12-14). Because of who they were, children of God, and because of the relationship that they had with God it demanded certain conduct from them, even down to such details as these. The people of Israel were to conduct themselves in a proper manner and maintain their camp in a holy manner.
Question: What other actions or practices can you think of that Israel was to keep in order to be holy?
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