Let’s continue on with our discussion about prostitution in the ancient world. The first thing you have to understand is that houses of ill repute in the Biblical era were not considered as such. The activity of sex for pay was actually connected to the various temples and their gods and goddesses. If you want […]

“No woman of Israel is to engage in ritual prostitution, and no man of Israel is to engage in ritual homosexual prostitution.“-Deuteronomy 23:18 Alrighty, Deuteronomy 23:18 is going to require some explaining because the Biblical reality is so separate from what we know today. Depending on your Bible translation, the topic of this verse is […]

“If a slave has escaped from his master and taken refuge with you, you are not to hand him back to his master.  Allow him to stay with you, in whichever place suits him best among your settlements; do not mistreat him.”-Deuteronomy 23:16 From verse 23, yet again the Lord lays down a law contrary […]

“Also you are to have an area outside the camp to use as a latrine.   You must include a trowel with your equipment, and when you relieve yourself, you are to dig a hole first and afterwards cover your excrement.  For Adonai your God moves about in your camp to rescue you and to hand […]

“When you are in camp, at war with your enemies, you are to guard yourself against anything bad.  If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp; he is not to enter the camp.  When evening arrives he is to bathe himself […]