Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Note whore: or, sodomitess
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Deuteronomy 23:17
- There shall be, etc. The prohibition in the text, like many others, has no direct application to practices that were common among the Israelites at that time; but was intended to guard them against the enormities which were practised among the surrounding nations.
- Deuteronomy 22:21, 29; Leviticus 19:29; Proverbs 2:16
- whore
- or, sodomitess.
- Romans 1:26
- sodomite
- Genesis 19:4, 5; Judges 19:22; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7; Romans 1:27, 28; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10