Deuteronomy 23:17
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, Rom 1:26 sodomite Gen 19:4-5; Judg 19:22; 1Kgs 14:24, 1Kgs 15:12, 1Kgs 22:46; 2Kgs 23:7; Rom 1:27-28; 1Cor 6:9; 1Tim 1:10
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