and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nation which the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:17 - Revised Standard Version “There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Common English Bible 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 There shall be no prostitutes among the daughters of Israel, nor anyone among the sons of Israel who visits a prostitute. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel. |
and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nation which the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated from the land.
And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
“Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,
then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.
immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, base fellows, beset the house round about, beating on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”