Deut 23:17

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There shall be, etc.

The prohibition in the text, like many others, has no direct application to practices that were common among the Israelites at that time; but was intended to guard them against the enormities which were practised among the surrounding nations.

Deut 22:21; Deut 22:29; Lev 19:29; Prov 2:16

whore. or, sodomitess.

Ro 1:26

sodomite.

Gen 19:4; Gen 19:5; Judg 19:22; 1Kgs 14:24; 1Kgs 15:12; 1Kgs 22:46; 2Kgs 23:7; Rom 1:27; Rom 1:28

1Cor 6:9; 1Tim 1:10