Prostitution

How Nave’s arranged it

• (Lascivious behavior)
• ForbiddenLeviticus 19:29Deuteronomy 23:17
• See Adultery
• See Lasciviousness

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 19:29

   You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:292 voices

   “Do not prostitute thy daughter - This was a very frequent custom, and with examples of it writers of antiquity abound. The Cyprian women, according to Justin, gained that portion which their husbands received with them at marriage by previous public prostitution. And the Phoenicians, according to Augustine, made a gift to Venus of the gain acquired by the public prostitution of their daughters, previously to their marriage. “Veneri donum dabant, et prostitutiones filiarum, antequam jungerent eas viris.” - De Civit. Del, lib. xviii., c. 5; and see Calmet.

   “Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore,....

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2. Deuteronomy 23:17

   No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:172 voices

   “Compare the marginal reference. Prostitution was a common part of religious observances among idolatrous nations, especially in the worship of Ashtoreth or Astarte. Compare Mic 1:7; Baruch 6:43.

   “There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,.... The word for "whore" is "kedeshah", which properly signifies an "holy" one; and here, by an antiphrasis, an unholy, an impure person, one that is defiled by man; See Gill on Gen 38:

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