Leviticus 19:29
Good News Translation
"Do not disgrace your daughters by making them temple prostitutes; if you do, you will turn to other gods and the land will be full of immorality.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, that the land not become prostituted and full of depravity.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let your daughters serve as temple prostitutes--this would bring disgrace both to them and the land.

New American Bible
You shall not degrade your daughter by making a prostitute of her; otherwise the land will prostitute itself and become full of lewdness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

prostitute [heb] profane

Leviticus 21:7 They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

Hosea 4:12-14 My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

Context
Keep My Decrees
28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord. 29Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.30Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:9
If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

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.

Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 23:18
Thou 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.

Leviticus 19:28
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