SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:13
tendrás también una estaca entre tus armas; y será que, cuando estuvieres allí fuera, cavarás con ella, y luego al volverte cubrirás tu excremento;
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon , etc.] A nail or spike, some kind of instrument to make a hole in the ground with, which was fastened to the sword upon their loins; which was to be instead of a spade or mattock to dig with: and it shall be, when thou shall ease thyself abroad ; without the camp, in the place appointed for that use, whenever nature required such an action to be performed; thou shall dig therewith ; with, the paddle, an hole in the earth: the Essenes used, according to Josephus, to make it a foot deep with a spade or mattock, and to everyone that was newly admitted among them, a little pickaxe was given for that purpose f392 : and shalt turn back ; having eased nature: and cover that which cometh from thee ; their dung, with the earth they dug out of the hole they made. This law was made to preserve modesty and decency becoming men, and not act like brute beasts, as well as cleanliness in the camp, and, the health of themselves and their fellow soldiers; and that, they might not be offensive to the smell, as well as pernicious to the health of one another; and especially for a reason that follows in ( Deuteronomy 23:14); so Maimonides says, the intention of this law is especially cleanliness, and to avoid nastiness, filthiness, and impurities of every kind, that men might not be like the brute animals.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-14 - The camp of the Lord must have nothing offensive in it. If there mus be this care taken to preserve the body clean, much more should we be careful to keep the mind pure.
Original Hebrew
ויתד 3489 תהיה 1961 לך על 5921 אזנך 240 והיה 1961 בשׁבתך 3427 חוץ 2351 וחפרתה 2658 בה ושׁבת 7725 וכסית 3680 את 853 צאתך׃ 6627
