17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-25)Orders are here given about five several things which have no relation one to another:— I. The land of Israel is here made a sanctuary, or city of refuge, for servants that were wronged and abused by their masters, and fled thither for shelter from the neighbouring countries, Deut. 23:15 , 16 . We cannot suppose that they were hereby obliged to give entertainment to all the unprincipled men that r…
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