Deuteronomy 23:17 “No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.”

Deuteronomy 23:17

No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

World English Bible

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

American Standard Version

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Geneva Bible 1599

There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a whore keeper of the sonnes of Israel.

Darby Translation

There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;

Bible in Basic English

No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

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Cross references

“There shall be, etc”

Leviticus 19:29 Deuteronomy 22:21 Proverbs 2:16 Deuteronomy 22:29

Leviticus 19:29 · BSB

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Deuteronomy 22:21 · BSB

she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the…

Proverbs 2:16 · BSB

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Deuteronomy 22:29 · BSB

then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

“whore”

Romans 1:26

Romans 1:26 · BSB

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

“sodomite”

2 Kings 23:7 1 Kings 14:24 1 Kings 15:12 1 Kings 22:46 1 Timothy 1:10 1 Corinthians 6:9

2 Kings 23:7 · BSB

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.

1 Kings 14:24 · BSB

There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

1 Kings 15:12 · BSB

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46 · BSB

He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

1 Timothy 1:10 · BSB

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

1 Corinthians 6:9 · BSB

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

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