Open-air living and strict rules against leaving refuse within the encampment maintained campsite sanitation.
Draft interpretation · MH 279.2
Original passage
During the sojourn in the wilderness the Israelites were almost continually in the open air, where impurities would have a less harmful effect than upon the dwellers in close houses. But the strictest regard to cleanliness was required both within and without their tents. No refuse was allowed to remain within or about the encampment. The Lord said:
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