Deuteronomy 23:18

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 23:21 : 21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
  • Lev 18:22 : 22 "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
  • Ps 5:4-6 : 4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you. 5 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity. 6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
  • Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
  • Isa 56:10-11 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Isa 61:8 : 8 "For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  • Ezek 16:33 : 33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
  • Deut 12:6 : 6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:
  • Lev 7:16 : 16 "'But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 23:17
    79%

    17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

    26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

  • Deut 17:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

    2 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Lev 18:19-24
    6 verses
    74%

    19 "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

    20 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

    21 "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.

    22 "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

    23 "'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

    24 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • Lev 19:29
    72%

    29 "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Exod 34:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

    16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

  • Exod 22:31
    72%

    31 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

  • Deut 25:16
    70%

    16 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 14:3
    70%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Lev 22:22-25
    4 verses
    70%

    22 Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.

    23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

    24 That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall you do thus in your land.

    25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"

  • Deut 18:9
    70%

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

  • Exod 22:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 "Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

    20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

  • Deut 23:19
    70%

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

  • Exod 23:19
    70%

    19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Lev 22:20
    70%

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

  • Deut 12:31
    70%

    31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

  • Isa 23:18
    69%

    18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20 "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Mal 1:14
    69%

    14 "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name is awesome among the nations."

  • Hos 4:15
    69%

    15 "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don't let Judah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'

  • Lev 18:27
    69%

    27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

  • Ezek 16:31-33
    3 verses
    69%

    31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

    33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

  • Deut 12:17
    69%

    17 You 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 of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

  • Deut 15:21
    69%

    21 If it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 17:8
    69%

    8 "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • Deut 18:12
    69%

    12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.

  • Lev 21:7
    69%

    7 "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Lev 19:13
    68%

    13 "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

  • Ezek 16:35
    68%

    35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

  • Deut 22:5
    68%

    5 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Ezek 22:11
    68%

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

  • Deut 17:4
    68%

    4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

  • Deut 23:21
    68%

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

  • Lev 25:37
    68%

    37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  • Exod 34:26
    68%

    26 "You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

  • Deut 27:21
    68%

    21 'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'