Deuteronomy Chapter 23 verse 17 Holy Bible
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.
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There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.
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There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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`There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 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).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
