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Leviticus 19:29
29“Do not defile your daughter, to make her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and become full of wickedness.
Leviticus 19:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘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.
Context of Leviticus 19:29
27“You are not to round off the hair on the sides of your heads, nor are you to mar the edge of your beard. 28You are not to make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead or make any tattoo marks upon yourself. I am Adonai. “Do not defile your daughter, to make her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and become full of wickedness. 30“You are to keep My Shabbatot, and reverence My Sanctuary. I am Adonai. 31“Do not turn to those who are mediums or to soothsayers. Do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am Adonai your God.
Read all of Leviticus 19Leviticus 19:29 word by word
אַל־תְּחַלֵּ֥ל אֶֽת־בִּתְּךָ֖ לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ וְלֹא־תִזְנֶ֣ה הָאָ֔רֶץ וּמָלְאָ֥ה הָאָ֖רֶץ זִמָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 19:29
- Leviticus 21:7They are not to marry women who are defiled as prostitutes, or profane. Neither shall they marry women divorced from their husbands, for a kohen is holy to his God.
- Deuteronomy 23:17Let him dwell with you in your midst, in the place he chooses within one of your town gates—the one that is good for him. You are not to mistreat him.
- Hosea 4:12My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take the members of Messiah and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
Commentaries on Leviticus 19:29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Do not prostitute thy daughter - This was a very frequent custom, and with examples of it writers of antiquity abound. The Cyprian women, according to Justin, gained that portion which their husbands received with them at marriage by previous public prostitution. And the Phoenicians, according to Augustine, made a gift to Venus of the gain acquired by the public prostitution of their daughters, previously to their marriage. "Veneri donum dabant, et…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29Compare Leviticus 21:9 and Deuteronomy 23:17.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-372. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel--Many of the laws enumerated in this chapter had been previously announced. As they were, however, of a general application, not suited to particular classes, but to the nation at large, so Moses seems, according to divine instructions, to have rehearsed them, perhaps on different occasions and to successive divisions of the people, till "all the congregation of the children of Israel" were…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 19
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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