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Deuteronomy 23:17

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
תִהְיֶ֥הtih.Yehshe will beH1961 →
קְדֵשָׁ֖הke.de.Shaha female cult prostituteH6948 →
מִבְּנ֣וֹתmi.be.Notany of [the] daughters ofH1323 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
וְלֹֽא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
יִהְיֶ֥הyih.Yehhe will beH1961 →
קָדֵ֖שׁka.Desha male cult prostituteH6945 →
מִבְּנֵ֥יmi.be.Neiany of [the] sons ofH1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵל׃yis.ra.'elIsraelH3478 →

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Leviticus 20:13If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.2 Kings 23:7He 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.Leviticus 19:29You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.1 Kings 14:24There 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 15:12He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.Deuteronomy 22:21she 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 evil from among you.1 Kings 22:46He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teachingJob 36:14They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.1 Corinthians 6:9Do 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,Romans 1:26–28For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive wordsJudges 19:22While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”Genesis 19:4–5Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.Genesis 19:7“Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!Hosea 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.Ezekiel 16:50Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.Deuteronomy 22:29then 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.

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