You must not cut your body as a way to remember dead people. You must not make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord!
Leviticus 19:29 - Easy To Read Version “Don’t make your daughter become a prostitute. [341] That only shows you don’t respect her! Don’t let people be prostitutes in your country. Don’t let your country be filled with that kind of sin. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do not profane your daughter by causing her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and become full of wickedness. American Standard Version (1901) Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. Common English Bible Do not defile your daughter by making her sexually promiscuous or else the land will become promiscuous and full of shame. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not prostitute your daughter, lest the land be contaminated and filled with crimes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness. |
You must not cut your body as a way to remember dead people. You must not make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord!
“A priest serves God in a special way. So a priest must not marry a woman who had sexual relations with some other man. A priest must not marry a prostitute [375] or a divorced woman.
“If a priest’s daughter becomes a prostitute, [376] then she ruins her reputation, and she brings shame to her father! So she must be burned.
Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take the parts of Christ and join those parts to a prostitute {\cf2\super [37]} !
then the town leaders must bring the girl to the door of her father’s house. Then the men of the town must kill her with stones. Why? Because she has done a shameful thing in Israel. She has acted like a prostitute [138] in her father’s house. You must remove that evil from your people.