17 No Israelite man(A) or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.(B)

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

17 “There shall be no ritual [a]harlot (A)of the daughters of Israel, or a (B)perverted[b] one of the sons of Israel.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qedeshah, fem. of qadesh (next note)
  2. Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

22 Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything(A) his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women(B) who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Read full chapter

22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Read full chapter

Prophecy Against Eli’s Household

22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard everything his sons did to all Israel, [a]and how they lay with (A)the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:22 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX omit rest of verse

24 There were even male shrine prostitutes(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

24 (A)And there were also [a]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the (B)abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of (C)Israel.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:24 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals