Deuteronomy 23:17
New International Version
No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.

New Living Translation
“No Israelite, whether man or woman, may become a temple prostitute.

English Standard Version
“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.

Berean Standard Bible
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

King James Bible
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

New King James Version
“There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.

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.

NASB 1995
“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

NASB 1977
“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

Legacy 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.

Amplified Bible
“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.

Christian Standard Bible
“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

American Standard Version
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, also there shall be no one who fornicates of the sons of Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
People of Israel, don't any of you ever be temple prostitutes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

English Revised Version
There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
No Israelite man or woman should ever become a temple prostitute.

Good News Translation
"No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.

International Standard Version
"There are to be no cultic prostitutes among the daughters or the sons of Israel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Literal Standard Version
There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;

Majority Standard Bible
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

New American Bible
There shall be no temple prostitute among the Israelite women, nor a temple prostitute among the Israelite men.

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 Revised Standard Version
None of the daughters of Israel shall be a temple prostitute; none of the sons of Israel shall be a temple prostitute.

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's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;

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Context
Miscellaneous Laws
16Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him. 17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute. 18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.…

Cross References
Genesis 19:5
They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!"

Leviticus 19:29
You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Deuteronomy 22:21
she shall be brought to the door of her father's house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father's house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

1 Kings 14:24
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

1 Kings 15:12
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46
He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

2 Kings 23:7
He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.


Treasury of Scripture

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

There shall be, etc.

Deuteronomy 22:21,29
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you…

Leviticus 19:29
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.

Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

whore.

Romans 1:26
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

sodomite

Genesis 19:4,5
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: …

Judges 19:22
Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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Deuteronomy 23
1. Who may or may not enter into the congregation
9. Uncleanness is to be avoided in the host
15. Of the fugitive servant
17. Of filthiness
18. Of abominable sacrifices
19. Of usury
20. Of vows
24. Of trespass














(17) Whore and sodomite seem both intended to be taken in the sense in which they belonged to the temples of Baal and Ashtaroth, of persons dedicated to impurity.

Verses 17, 18. - Amongst idolatrous nations prostitution was in certain cases regarded as an act of religious service (cf. Herod, 1:199), and both males and females prostituted themselves especially in the worship of Astarte. All such abominations were to be unknown in Israel (cf. Micah 1:7). Whore; kedeshah (קְדֵשָׁה), a female who prostituted herself in the worship of an idol. The price of a dog; not money obtained from the sale of a dog, but the gains of the kadesh, or male prostitute, here called a dog, as the type of all uncleanness (cf. Revelation 22:15).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
No
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

daughter
מִבְּנ֣וֹת (mib·bə·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

or
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

son
מִבְּנֵ֥י (mib·bə·nê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

is to be
תִהְיֶ֥ה (ṯih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a cult prostitute.
קָדֵ֖שׁ (qā·ḏêš)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6945: A, sacred person, a, devotee, to licentious idolatry


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