Deuteronomy 23:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ “None of the daughters of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine; none of the sons of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ No Israelite daughter is allowed to be a consecrated worker. Neither is any Israelite son allowed to be a consecrated worker.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ There shall be no prostitutes among the daughters of Israel, nor anyone among the sons of Israel who visits a prostitute.

Deuteronomy 23:17 Cross References

2 Kings 23:7

He broke down the houses of the illicit priests who were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.

1 Kings 14:24

there were also illicit priests in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

Leviticus 19:29

“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, that the land not become prostituted and full of depravity.

1 Kings 22:46

The remnant of the illicit priests who remained from the days of his father Asa, he purged from the land.

1 Kings 15:12

He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

Deuteronomy 22:21

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.

1 Timothy 1:10

the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,

Proverbs 2:16

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Judges 19:22

While they were enjoying themselves, the men of the city, a perverse lot, surrounded the house and started pounding on the door. They said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may have intercourse with him.”

Deuteronomy 22:29

the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her, he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.

Job 36:14

They die in their youth, and their life ends in shame.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with female attendants; thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.