and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did the same abominations as those of the nations that Adonai had driven out before the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:17 - Tree of Life Version Let him dwell with you in your midst, in the place he chooses within one of your town gates—the one that is good for him. You are not to mistreat him. 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 the same abominations as those of the nations that Adonai had driven out before the children of Israel.
He also expelled the male prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoshaphat along with his might that he showed and how he warred, are they not written in Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Then he tore down the quarters of the male cult prostitutes that had been in the House of Adonai, where the women had been weaving coverings for the Asherah.
to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words,
Will I not punish your daughters for prostitution or your daughters-in-law for adultery? For they consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes. A people without understanding will be thrust down.
“Do not defile your daughter, to make her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and become full of wickedness.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, those who practice homosexuality,
then they are to bring the young woman out to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city are to stone her with stones to death, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to behave like a prostitute in her father’s house. So you are to purge the evil from your midst.
Then the man who lay with her is to give to the young woman’s father 50 pieces of silver, and she is to be his wife, since he has humiliated her—he may not send her away all his days.
the sexually immoral, homosexuals, slave-traders, liars, perjurers, and for anything else that opposes sound teaching—
While they were making their hearts merry, behold, some worthless men of the town surrounded the house. Pounding the door, they shouted to the owner of the house, “Bring out the man that came into your house,” they said to the old man, “so we may have relations with him.”