KJV King James Version
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
WEB World English Bible
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
ASV American Standard Version
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 23
14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
16 He shall dwell with thee, [even] among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.
19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לֹא־H3808 · lonotתִהְיֶ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beקְדֵשָׁ֖הH6948 · qe.de.shahcult prostituteמִבְּנ֣וֹתH1323 · batdaughterיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelוְלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotיִהְיֶ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beקָדֵ֖שׁH6945 · qa.deshmale cult prostituteמִבְּנֵ֥יH1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵל׃H3478 · yis.ra.elIsrael
Cross-references
2 Kings 23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.1 Kings 14:24And 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.Leviticus 19:29Do 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 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.Deuteronomy 22:21Then 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 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.1 Timothy 1:10For 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;Romans 1:26-28For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:1 Corinthians 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;Judges 19:22[Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.Genesis 19:4-5But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:Deuteronomy 22:29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
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