Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:17 in other translations
| BSB | No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute. |
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| WEB | There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. |
| ASV | There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. |
| YLT | ‘There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel; |
| DARBY | There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. |
What does Deuteronomy 23:17 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:15-25
It is honourable to shelter and protect the weak, provided they are not wicked. Proselytes and converts to the truth, should be treated with particular tenderness, that they may have no temptation to return to the world. We cannot honour God with our substance, unless it be honestly and honourably come by. It must not only be considered what we give, but how we got it. Where the borrower gets, or hopes to get, it is…
Deuteronomy 23:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 23:17
- 2 Kings 23:7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
- Leviticus 19:29
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.
- 1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- Deuteronomy 22:21
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
- 1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 1 Timothy 1:10
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
- Romans 1:26-28
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- 1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- Judges 19:22
Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
- Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- Genesis 19:4-5
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
22:21,29; Le 19:29; Pr 2:16
whore. or, sodomitess.
Ro 1:26
sodomite.
Ge 19:4,5; Jud 19:22; 1Ki 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2Ki 23:7; Ro 1:27,28
1Co 6:9; 1Ti 1:10
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Context
- Deuteronomy 23:16
He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
- Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 23:18
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 23:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No habrá ramera de las hijas de Israel, ni habrá sodomítico de los hijos de Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | il habitera avec toi, au milieu de toi, dans le lieu qu’il choisira en l’une de tes portes, là où bon lui semble: tu ne l’opprimeras pas. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Es soll keine Buhlerin sein unter den Töchtern Israels, und es soll kein Buhler sein unter den Söhnen Israels. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non erit meretrix de filiabus Israël, nec scortator de filiis Israël. |