There are some rules about not letting your daughter's become prostitutes:
Deut. 23:18 - There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Leviticus 19:29. 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.
Leviticus 21:9.And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
However Prostitution was not illegal
If there were laws in place against prostitution the following stories would have been different:
Keep in mind Isreal was a Theocracy, religious laws were also state laws.
- Solomon’s wisely handles a quarrel between two prostitutes fighting over a child. Interesting that the known prostitutes had the nerve to appear before the king. (1 King 3:16) If prostitution was illegal Solomon as judge should have given some verdict against both women.
- Jephthah’s mother was a prostitute. Judges 11
- God commands Hosea to marry a prostitute.
- Samson and the prostitute in Judges 16. There was no hint that it was a sin for Samson to sleep with a prostitute. However the holy Spirit leaves him when he gets his hair cut.
- Story of Judah and Tamar in Gen 38. Judah was upset that Tamar turned to prostitution. However, Judah doesn’t repent that he stopped to be with someone he thought was a prostitute. He repents that he hadn’t given Tamar to his other son Shelah (which was the expectation in their culture).
- Joshua’s spies ‘lay down’ or slept at the prostitute Rahab’s place. Same term that often gets used in reference to sex... but not necessarily so... but considering she was a prostitute, if the guys were ‘sleeping’ there without having sex there, the writer should have stated it to clear the names of those poor men.
- Rahab is listed as a woman of faith. There is no mention if/when she gave up her trade. (Heb 11:31)
- Matt 21:31 (NIV) Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.
New Testament consistently forbids prostitution
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