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Deuteronomy 23:17
17“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.
Deuteronomy 23:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- New International Version (NIV)No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.
Context of Deuteronomy 23:17
15“Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you. 16Let him live among you wherever he wants within your city gates. Do not mistreat him. “No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute. 18Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God. 19“Do not charge your brother interest on silver, food, or anything that can earn interest.
Read all of Deuteronomy 23Deuteronomy 23:17 word by word
לֹא־תִהְיֶ֥ה קְדֵשָׁ֖ה מִבְּנ֣וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה קָדֵ֖שׁ מִבְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 23:17
- Deuteronomy 22:21they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.
- Leviticus 19:29“Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
- Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,
- Romans 1:26For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
- Genesis 19:4Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.
- Judges 19:22While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, wicked men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him!”
- 1 Kings 14:24there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 15:12He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46He eradicated from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.
- 2 Kings 23:7He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries for Asherah.
- Romans 1:27The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males,
- 1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral and males who have sex with males, for slave traders, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 23:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17There shall be no whore - See on Genesis 38:15-21; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Compare the marginal reference. Prostitution was a common part of religious observances among idolatrous nations, especially in the worship of Ashtoreth or Astarte. Compare Micah 1:7; Baruch 6:43.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-25Verses 15-25 It is honourable to shelter and protect the weak, provided they are not wicked. Proselytes and converts to the truth, should be treated with particular tenderness, that they may have no temptation to return to the world. We cannot honour God with our substance, unless it be honestly and honourably come by. It must not only be considered what we give, but how we got it. Where the borrower gets, or hopes to get, it is just that the lender…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17A temple prostitute was commonly a part of Canaanite religious ceremonies, but they were forbidden in Israel.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251-3. He that is wounded ..., shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord--"To enter into the congregation of the Lord" means either admission to public honors and offices in the Church and State of Israel, or, in the case of foreigners, incorporation with that nation by marriage. The rule was that strangers and foreigners, for fear of friendship or marriage connections with them leading the people into idolatry, were not admissible till their…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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