Reference: Harlot
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HARLOT (Heb. z
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'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.
'Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
"If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,
"No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
"None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. And Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Suddenly he follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,
Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.
For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.
Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.
"Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.
"I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.
'They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains And burn incense on the hills, Under oak, poplar and terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters play the harlot And your brides commit adultery.
"These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the helpless Also turn aside the way of the humble; And a man and his father resort to the same girl In order to profane My holy name.
"For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.
but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
"You are doing the deeds of your father " They said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God."
but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell."
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
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,
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,