Leviticus 19:29
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Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.

prostitute [heb] profane

Leviticus 21:7 They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

Hosea 4:12-14 My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

Context
Keep My Decrees
28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord. 29Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.30Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:9
If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

Deuteronomy 22:21
They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 23:18
Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Lexicon
You must not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

defile
תְּחַלֵּ֥ל (tə·ḥal·lêl)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

your daughter
בִּתְּךָ֖ (bit·tə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

by making her a prostitute,
לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ (lə·haz·nō·w·ṯāh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

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

the land
הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

will be prostituted
תִזְנֶ֣ה (ṯiz·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

and filled
וּמָלְאָ֥ה (ū·mā·lə·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4390: To fill, be full of

with depravity.
זִמָּֽה׃ (zim·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2154: A plan, device, wickedness


Additional Translations
You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

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

Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity.

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

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

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.

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

'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.
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