Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

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.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There shall be no whore
קדשׁה 
Q@deshah 
Usage: 5

of the daughters
בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

קדשׁ 
Qadesh 
Usage: 6

of the sons

Usage: 0

Context Readings

Cult Prostitution Forbidden

16 He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him. 17 None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute. 18 You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:29

Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.

2 Kings 23:7

He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

1 Kings 14:24

There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12

He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46

The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.

1 Timothy 1:10

and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

Genesis 19:4-5

Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;

Deuteronomy 22:29

then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.

Judges 19:22

While they were celebrating, behold, the men of the city, certain worthless fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house that we may have relations with him.”

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Romans 1:26-28

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

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