Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel, - neither shall there be, a male devotee, of the sons of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Holman Bible
“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.
International Standard Version
"There are to be no cultic prostitutes among the daughters or the sons of Israel.
A Conservative Version
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.
Amplified
“There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) 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.
Darby Translation
There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not be a harlot from the daughters of Israel, and a male prostitute from the sons of Israel.
King James 2000
There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"No woman {of Israel} shall be a temple prostitute, and no man {of Israel} shall be a male shrine prostitute.
Modern King James verseion
There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whorekeeper of the sons of Israel.
NET Bible
There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.
New Heart English Bible
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sacred male prostitute of the children of Israel.
Webster
There shall be no harlot 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
Themes
Sexual activities » What sexual activities are forbidden
Sodom » Figurative » Of wickedness
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 23:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cult Prostitution Forbidden
16 with thee, shall he remain in thy midst, in the place which he shall choose in any of thy gates where it seemeth good to him, - thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel, - neither shall there be, a male devotee, of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the wages of an unchaste woman, or the hire of a dog, into the house of Yahweh thy God for any vow, - for, an abomination unto Yahweh thy God, are they both.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:29
Do not profane thy daughter by causing her to be unchaste, - lest the land fall to unchastity, and so the land be filled with wickedness.
2 Kings 23:7
and he brake down the houses of the male devotees, which were in the house of Yahweh, - where the women did weave houses to the Sacred Stem;
Deuteronomy 22:21
then shall they bring forth the damsel into the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought wickedness in Israel, by committing unchastity in her father's house, - so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of thy midst.
1 Kings 14:24
Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land, - they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12
and he put away the male devotees out of the land, - and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 22:46
Moreover, the rest of the male devotees who remained in the days of Asa his father, he consumed out of the land.
1 Timothy 1:10
fornicators, sodomites, man-stealers, liars, false- swearers, - and, if anything else, unto the healthful teaching, is opposed; -
Genesis 19:4-5
Ere yet they lay down, the men of the city - the men of Sodom, had come round against the house, from youth even unto age, - all the people from every quarter,
Deuteronomy 22:29
then shall the man who lay with her 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.
Judges 19:22
They, were gladdening their heart, when lo! men of the city, men of the sons of the Abandoned One, beset the house round about, beating violently against the door, - and they spake unto the old man the owner of the house, saying, Bring forth the man that hath entered into thy house, that we may know him.
Proverbs 2:16
To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;
Romans 1:26-28
For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature, -
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God's kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: - neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,