申命记 23:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

妓女所得的酬金，或男妓所得的代價，你不可帶入耶和華你的　神的殿裡還任何的願，因為這兩樣都是耶和華你的　神厭惡的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
娼 妓 所 得 的 钱 ， 或 娈 童 （ 原 文 作 狗 ） 所 得 的 价 ， 你 不 可 带 入 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 的 殿 还 愿 ， 因 为 这 两 样 都 是 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 所 憎 恶 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ If an escaped slave comes to you, do not hand over the slave to his master. ¹⁶ Let the slave live with you anywhere he likes, in any town he chooses. Do not mistreat him. ¹⁷ No Israelite man or woman must ever become a temple prostitute. ¹⁸ Do not bring a male or female prostitute's pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord , because the Lord your God hates prostitution. ¹⁹ If you loan your fellow Israelites money or food or anything else, don't make them pay back more than you loaned them. ²⁰ You may charge foreigners, but not fellow Israelites. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land you are entering to take as your own. ²¹ If you make a promise to give something to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, because the Lord your God demands it from you. Do not be guilty of sin. ²² But if you do not make the promise, you will not be guilty. ²³ You must do whatever you say you will do, because you chose to make the promise to the Lord your God. ²⁴ If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you wish, but do not put any grapes into your basket.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hire: Ezekiel 16:33

dog: Psalms 22:16, Proverbs 26:11, Isaiah 56:10, Isaiah 56:11, Matthew 7:6, Philippians 3:2, 2 Peter 2:22, Revelation 22:15

any vow: Deuteronomy 23:21, Deuteronomy 12:6, Leviticus 7:16, Psalms 5:4-6, Isaiah 61:8, Habakkuk 1:13, Malachi 1:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:16 - What wilt Leviticus 18:27 - General Leviticus 27:11 - General Deuteronomy 7:25 - an abomination Deuteronomy 17:1 - for that Judges 11:31 - and I will 2 Samuel 3:8 - Amos I a dog's head Proverbs 6:16 - an Isaiah 23:17 - and she shall Isaiah 66:3 - cut Jonah 2:9 - I will pay Micah 1:7 - for Matthew 27:6 - to put Romans 1:26 - vile Ephesians 5:3 - fornication 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love

Cross-References

Genesis 34:20
So Hamor and Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

Ruth 4:1
Boaz went to the city gate and sat there until the close relative he had mentioned passed by. Boaz called to him, "Come here, friend, and sit down." So the man came over and sat down.

Jeremiah 32:12
And I gave them to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah. My cousin Hanamel, the other witnesses who signed the record of ownership, and many Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard saw me give the record of ownership to Baruch.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not bring the hire of a whore,.... Which was given to her as a reward for the use of her body:

or the price of a dog; not of the firstborn of a dog, the price for the redemption of it, as some; nor for the loan of a hunting dog, or a shepherd's dog for breed, as Josephus z interprets this law. Abarbinel understands it figuratively of a sodomite, comparable to a dog, for his uncleanness and impudence; see Revelation 22:15; and the price of such an one the gain he got by the prostitution of his body to unnatural lusts; and so as the hire of a whore answers to one in

Deuteronomy 23:17, the price of a dog to a sodomite here; and in this he is followed by some, nor is it a sense to be despised; though the Jews a understand it literally of a dog, and of the exchange of another creature with that; so Onkelos renders it,

"the exchange of a dog:''

now neither of these might a man bring

into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow; that is, when a man vowed to offer any sacrifice to the Lord, it was not to be anything that was given to a whore as her hire; as, for instance, as Jarchi, if he gave her for her hire a lamb, it was not fit to be offered; which agrees with the Jewish b canons,

"what is the hire of a whore? if one says to a whore, take this lamb for thy hire, though an hundred, they are all forbidden; and so if one says to his neighbour, lo, this lamb is thine, that thine handmaid may lie with my a servant, Rabbi says it is not the hire of a whore, but the wise men say it is.--If he gives her money, lo, this is free; wines, oils, and fine flour, and the like, that are offered on the altar, are forbidden; (but the commentators say c, wheat, olives, and grapes, out of which fine flour, oil, and wine are made, are free;) if he gives her consecrated things, lo, these are free, birds, they are forbidden.''

Now this law seems to be made in opposition to the customs and practices of the Phoenicians and Canaanites, whose land the Israelites were going to inhabit; whose women, as we are told d, used to prostitute themselves in the temples of their idols, and dedicate there the hire of their bodies to their gods, thinking thereby to appease their deities and obtain good things for themselves; and the like did the. Babylonians and Assyrians; Deuteronomy 23:17- :; so it is asked e,

"what is the price of a dog? if a man says to his neighbour, take this lamb for that dog; so if two partners divide, one takes ten (lambs), and the other nine and a dog; what is in lieu of the dog is forbidden, but those that are taken with him are free:''

a whore and a dog are fitly put together, because both are libidinous, impure, and impudent; perhaps the vileness and baseness of the creature is chiefly regarded in this law, to keep up the credit and veneration of sacrifices as sacred things; and it may be in reference to the worship of this creature, as by the Egyptians, who are said to worship a dog, their god Anubis f, the image of which had a dog's head on it; or to its being offered in sacrifice to idols, as it was by others; the Colophonians sacrificed the whelps of dogs to their goddess Enodius, as others did to Enyalius or Mars g:

for even both these [are] an abomination to the Lord thy God; both the hire of the whore and the price of the dog, when brought as a sacrifice to him; the one being a breach of the moral law, and the other tending to bring into contempt the sacrifices of the ceremonial law, if not a favouring idolatry, than which nothing is more abominable to God, who cannot endure anything evil, base, and impure.

z Antiqu. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 9. a In R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 28. 2. b Misn. Temurah, c. 6. sect. 2, 4. c Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. d Athanasius contra Gentes, p. 21. e Misn. ut supra, (b) sect. 3. f "Oppida tota canem venerantur", Juvenal. Satyr. 15. l. 8. "latrator Anubis", Virgil Aeneid. l. 8. prope finem. g Pausanias in Laconic. sive, l. 3. p. 188.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Another Gentile practice, connected with the one alluded to in the preceding verse, is here forbidden. The word “dog” is figurative (compare Revelation 22:15), and equivalent to the “sodomite” of the verse preceding.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 23:18. The hire of a whore, or the price of a dog — Many public prostitutes dedicated to their gods a part of their impure earnings; and some of these prostitutes were publicly kept in the temple of Venus Melytta, whose gains were applied to the support of her abominable worship.