Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

New American Standard Bible

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.

King James Version

Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Holman Bible

“Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

International Standard Version

"You are not to defile your daughter by engaging her in prostitution so the land won't become filled with wickedness.

A Conservative Version

Do not profane thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

American Standard Version

Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Amplified

‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land will not fall to prostitution and become full of wickedness.

Darby Translation

Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to commit fornication: and the land commit fornication and the land was filled with wickedness.

King James 2000

Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot; lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'You shall not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, {lest the land be prostituted and the land fill up with depravity}.

Modern King James verseion

You shall not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore, lest the land go whoring, and the land become full of wickedness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"'Thou shalt not pollute thy daughter, that thou wouldest maintain her to be an whore: lest the land fall to whoredom, and wax full of wickedness.

NET Bible

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

New Heart English Bible

"'Do not profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

The Emphasized Bible

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.

Webster

Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a harlot: lest the land should fall to lewdness, and the land become full of wickedness.

World English Bible

"'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

Youngs Literal Translation

'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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
to cause her to be a whore
זנה 
Zanah 
Usage: 93

lest the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Blood, Hair, And Body

28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord. 29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame. 30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

Cross References

Leviticus 21:7

They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

Deuteronomy 23:17-18

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.

Hosea 4:12-14

My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

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