Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among 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.
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.
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 he doth dwell, in thy midst, in the place which he chooseth within one of thy gates, where it is pleasing to him; thou dost not oppress him. 17 'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel; 18 thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of Jehovah thy God are even both of them.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:29
'Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.
2 Kings 23:7
And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that are in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.
Deuteronomy 22:21
then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring in her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
1 Kings 14:24
and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12
and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;
1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land;
1 Timothy 1:10
whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,
Genesis 19:4-5
Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;
Deuteronomy 22:29
then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.
Judges 19:22
They are making their heart glad, and lo, men of the city, men -- sons of worthlessness -- have gone round about the house, beating on the door, and they speak unto the old man, the master of the house, saying, 'Bring out the man who hath come unto thine house, and we know him.'
Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
Romans 1:26-28
Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;
1 Corinthians 6:9
have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,