Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

New American Standard Bible

None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

"There are to be no cultic prostitutes among the daughters or the sons of Israel.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

“There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.

Bible in Basic English

No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

Darby Translation

There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not be a harlot from the daughters of Israel, and a male prostitute from the sons of Israel.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

"No woman {of Israel} shall be a temple prostitute, and no man {of Israel} shall be a male shrine prostitute.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whorekeeper of the sons of Israel.

NET Bible

There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

New Heart English Bible

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sacred male prostitute of the children of Israel.

The Emphasized Bible

There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel, - neither shall there be, a male devotee, of the sons of Israel.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There shall be no whore
קדשׁה 
Q@deshah 
Usage: 5

of the daughters
בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

קדשׁ 
Qadesh 
Usage: 6

of the sons

Usage: 0

Context Readings

Cult Prostitution Forbidden

16 Let him live among you wherever he wants within your gates. Do not mistreat him. 17 “No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute. 18 Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.



Cross References

Leviticus 19:29

“Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

2 Kings 23:7

He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries for Asherah.

Deuteronomy 22:21

they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

1 Kings 14:24

there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

1 Kings 15:12

He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46

He removed from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral and homosexuals, for kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

Genesis 19:4-5

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

Deuteronomy 22:29

the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

Judges 19:22

While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, perverted men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him!”

Proverbs 2:16

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,
from a stranger with her flattering talk,

Romans 1:26-28

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

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