Deuteronomy 23:17
Good News Translation
"No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.

New Revised Standard Version
None of the daughters of Israel shall be a temple prostitute; none of the sons of Israel shall be a temple prostitute.

Contemporary English Version
People of Israel, don't any of you ever be temple prostitutes.

New American Bible
There shall be no temple prostitute among the Israelite women, nor a temple prostitute among the Israelite men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

There shall be, etc.

Deuteronomy 22:21,29 They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. . . .

Leviticus 19:29 Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.

Proverbs 2:16 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

whore.

Romans 1:26 For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

sodomite

Genesis 19:4,5 But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together. . . .

Judges 19:22 While they were making merry, and refreshing their bodies with meat and drink, after the labour of the journey, the men of that city, sons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and beset the old man's house, and began to knock at the door, calling to the master of the house, and saying: Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may abuse him:

1 Kings 14:24 There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46 And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa, his father, he took out of the land.

2 Kings 23:7 He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.

Romans 1:27,28 And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:

Context
Miscellaneous Laws
16He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and shall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble. 17There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.18Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.…
Cross References
Genesis 19:5
And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:

Leviticus 19:29
Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.

Deuteronomy 22:21
They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

1 Kings 14:24
There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa, his father, he took out of the land.

2 Kings 23:7
He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.

Job 36:14
Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.

Hosea 4:14
I will not visit upon your daughters, when they shall commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.

Deuteronomy 23:16
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