Deuteronomy 23:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute or sacred male among the sons of Israel.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Thou shalt nether brynge the hyre of an whore nor the pryce of a dogge in to the housse of the Lorde thy God; in no maner of vowe: for eue both of them are abhominacion vnto the Lorde thy God.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thou shalt not bringe ye hyre of an whoore ner the price of a dogg in to the house of the LORDE yi God for eny maner of vowe: for they both are abhominacion vnto the LORDE thy God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thou shalt neyther bring the hyre of a whore, nor the price of a dogge into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for euen both these are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thou shalt neither bryng the hyre of a whore, nor the pryce of a dogge into the house of the Lorde thy God, in any maner of bowe: for eue both of them are abhomination vnto the Lord thy God.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `are' even both of them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the LORD your God.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 23:21 : 21 When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
  • Lev 18:22 : 22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilators.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and sexually immoral, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."
  • Ps 5:4-6 : 4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with you. 5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight; you hate all workers of iniquity. 6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.
  • Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
  • Isa 56:10-11 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.
  • Isa 61:8 : 8 For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  • Ezek 16:33 : 33 They give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your whoredom.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the heathen.
  • Deut 12:6 : 6 And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contributions of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks:
  • Lev 7:16 : 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day he offers his sacrifice: and on the next day, the remainder of it shall also be eaten:

Similar Verses (AI)

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    79%

    17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

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    76%

    25The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

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  • Deut 17:1-2
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    75%

    1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

    2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant,

  • Lev 18:19-24
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    19Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

    20Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

    21And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

    22You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.

    23Nor shall you lie with any beast to defile yourself with it: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down with it: it is confusion.

    24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

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    72%

    29Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to become a whore; lest the land become full of whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Exod 34:15-16
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    72%

    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

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  • Exod 22:31
    72%

    31And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

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    70%

    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 14:3
    70%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Lev 22:22-25
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    70%

    22Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a growth, or scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

    23Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in its parts, you may offer as a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

    24You shall not offer unto the LORD what is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall you make any offering of them in your land.

    25Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • Deut 18:9
    70%

    9When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Exod 22:19-20
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    70%

    19Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

    20He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

  • Deut 23:19
    70%

    19You shall not lend with interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent with interest:

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    70%

    19The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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    70%

    20But whatever has a blemish, you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

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    70%

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    18And her goods and her trade shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

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    69%

    20And whoever lies carnally with a woman who is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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    69%

    14But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the heathen.

  • Hos 4:15
    69%

    15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'

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    69%

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

  • Ezek 16:31-33
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    31In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;

    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

    33They give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your whoredom.

  • Deut 12:17
    69%

    17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your voluntary offerings, or heave offering of your hand:

  • Deut 15:21
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    21And if there is any blemish in it, such as if it is lame, or blind, or has any bad blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • Deut 18:12
    69%

    12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

  • Lev 21:7
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    7They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Lev 19:13
    68%

    13You shall not defraud your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

  • Ezek 16:35
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    35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

  • Deut 22:5
    68%

    5A woman shall not wear what pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 22:11
    68%

    11One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Deut 17:4
    68%

    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

  • Deut 23:21
    68%

    21When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

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    68%

    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

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    21Cursed be he who lies with any kind of animal. And all the people shall say, Amen.