Leviticus 19:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.”
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“You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 19:29 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 21:7A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
- Deuteronomy 23:17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- Hosea 4:12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).