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Deuteronomy 23:17

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

There shall be no whore {H6948} of the daughters {H1323} of Israel {H3478}, nor a sodomite {H6945} of the sons {H1121} of Israel {H3478}.

"No woman of Isra'el is to engage in ritual prostitution, and no man of Isra'el is to engage in ritual homosexual prostitution.

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

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

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Cross-References

  • 2 Kings 23:7 (7 votes)

    And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

  • Leviticus 19:29 (6 votes)

    Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • 1 Kings 14:24 (6 votes)

    And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 22:21 (5 votes)

    Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

  • 1 Kings 22:46 (5 votes)

    And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

  • 1 Kings 15:12 (5 votes)

    And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

  • 1 Timothy 1:10 (4 votes)

    For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;