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Don`t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
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Resisting Pagan Worship
Commentators explain this command was a direct counter to the pagan religious practices of surrounding nations. In some cultures, parents would dedicate their daughters to serve as prostitutes in the temples of idols like Astarte. God explicitly forbids this, showing that sexual purity is integral to true worship and holiness.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
Do not prostitute thy daughter.—This refers to the degrading worship of Astarte which prevailed in ancient times, and whi…
16th Century
Protestant
This passage more clearly proves that all unlicensed connections64 were always unlawful in God’s sight.
It is a tame and forced i…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore , &c.] Not by delaying to marry her, which is the sense …
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Presbyterian
There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the Ten Commandments…
