Deuteronomy 23:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 19:29 : 29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7 : 7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.
  • 1 Kgs 14:24 : 24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.
  • Deut 22:21 : 21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,
  • Rom 1:26-28 : 26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: 27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing. 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
  • Gen 19:4-5 : 4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; 5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
  • Deut 22:29 : 29 Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 23:18
    79%

    18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 19:29
    77%

    29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    75%

    24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

  • Lev 18:19-24
    6 verses
    75%

    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

    22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

    23 And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Exod 34:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

    16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 7:3
    72%

    3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

    2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Deut 17:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Lev 21:7
    71%

    7 They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

  • Hos 4:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

    15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

  • Deut 13:11
    71%

    11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Lev 18:17
    71%

    17 You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

  • Ezek 22:11
    70%

    11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • 2 Kgs 23:7
    70%

    7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

  • Deut 17:4
    70%

    4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

  • Deut 23:16
    70%

    16 Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.

  • Num 25:1
    70%

    1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

  • Deut 22:5
    70%

    5 It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 23:32
    70%

    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Lev 18:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • Deut 22:21
    69%

    21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Deut 7:26
    69%

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Deut 22:30
    69%

    30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20 If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • Lev 21:15
    69%

    15 And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

  • Deut 23:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

    2 One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.

  • Deut 18:9
    69%

    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Jer 50:40
    69%

    40 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

  • Jer 49:18
    69%

    18 As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.

  • Lev 17:8
    69%

    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Ezek 44:22
    69%

    22 And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

  • Isa 57:3
    69%

    3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

  • Lev 21:9
    69%

    9 And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.

  • Lev 18:11
    69%

    11 Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

  • Ezek 23:27
    68%

    27 So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.

  • Mic 2:5
    68%

    5 For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

  • Ezek 16:35
    68%

    35 For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

  • Lev 20:13
    68%

    13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.