About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself; moreover, she is pregnant as a result of prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
Leviticus 21:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The daughter of any priest who profanes herself by playing the harlot profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire [after being stoned]. [Josh. 7:15, 25.] American Standard Version (1901) And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. Common English Bible If the daughter of a priest defiles herself by being promiscuous, she defiles her father. She must be burned with fire. Catholic Public Domain Version If the daughter of a priest will have been taken into prostitution, and will have violated the name of her father, she shall be consumed by fire. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire. |
About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself; moreover, she is pregnant as a result of prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you; everyone who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it shall be cut off from among the people.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting flames?”
Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women, but touch no one who has the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the house.
“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, that the land not become prostituted and full of depravity.
If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is depravity; they shall be burned to death, both he and they, that there may be no depravity among you.
I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.
then they shall bring the young woman out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a disgraceful act in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
someone who is blameless, married only once, whose children are believers, not accused of debauchery and not rebellious.
And the one who is taken as having the devoted things shall be burned with fire, together with all that he has, for having transgressed the covenant of the Lord and for having done an outrageous thing in Israel.’ ”
Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord is bringing trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him to death; they burned them with fire, cast stones on them,
Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the Lord, for they treated the offerings of the Lord with contempt.
The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.