Deuteronomy 23:17

No Israelite, male or female, is to become a cult prostitute. Sexual immorality tied to pagan worship is utterly forbidden.

Cross-references · 13

• 2 Kgs 23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
• 1 Kgs 14:24And 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.
• Lev 19:29Do 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 Kgs 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
• Deut 22:21Then 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 Kgs 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
• 1 Tim 1:10For 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;
• Rom 1:26–28For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
• 1 Cor 6:9Know 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,
• Prov 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
• Judg 19:22Now 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.
• Gen 19:4–5But 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:
• Deut 22:29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

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