FORNICATION IN THE SEPTUAGINT
In Greek: “…πορν…”
The original Old Testament was written in Hebrew. The Septuagint is the Old Testament that was translated into Greek in the B.C. that was used predominantly by both Jesus and the early Christians; then the original New Testament was written solely in Greek. The Hebrew Old Testament English translations and context of the parallel Greek word in the Septuagint is conclusive proof of its definition of “prostitution” only and the selling of it: not free sex between single people, as today’s corrupted fornication word declares; and, is the base corruption used by today’s Church to condemn innocent sexually active single people (e.g., “Living in sin.”). My previous webpages showed that “…πορν…” overwhelmingly means “prostitution” in modern Greek today, and in its ancient origin word πέρνημι (pernemi); but, Churches are now going to say it didn’t in the time of Christ. But, the Septuagint is the equivalent of owning a Greek dictionary in the time of Christ. Again, “prostitution” is just one kind of sex out of marriage, but today’s “fornication” condemns all sex out of marriage. But, the real essence opposite of sex for money is free love, as marriage is really just an organized form of sex for money and/or conditions.
Here are all the traditional King James Version (KJV) places where the Septuagint and the New Testament uses the word …πορν… (…porn…). (See summary at the end):
(To see the Greek, I recommend http://www.apostolicbible.com/, “The Apostolic Bible Text” online, or the book The Septuagint with Apocrypha, by Brenton.)
Old Testament:
Genesis 34:31:
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
Genesis 38:15:
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
Genesis 38:21 (two places):
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
Genesis 38:22:
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
Genesis 38:24 (two places):
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
Exodus 34:15:
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods , and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Exodus 34:16 (two places):
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
Leviticus 17:7:
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Leviticus 19:29 (two places):
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 20:5:
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Leviticus 20:6:
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 21:7:
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
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.
Leviticus 21:14:
A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
Numbers 14:33:
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Numbers 15:39:
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Numbers 25:1:
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Deuteronomy 22:21:
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.
Deuteronomy 23:2:
A bastard (one born of a prostitute) shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:17 (two places):
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite (masculine form: male prostitute) of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:18:
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
“Hire of a whore” actually places whore into the context of “hire.”
Deuteronomy 31:16:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Joshua 2:1:
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua 6:17:
And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Joshua 6:22:
But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
Joshua 6:23:
And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab (the prostitute), and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
Joshua 6:25:
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Judges 2:17:
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Judges 8:27:
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Judges 8:33:
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
Judges 11:1:
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges 16:1:
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
1 Kings 3:16 (3 Kings in Septuagint):
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
1 Kings 21:19 (3 Kings 20:19 in Septuagint):
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine (and the prostitutes shall bathe in your blood).
1 Kings 22:38 (3 Kings in Septuagint):
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour (and the prostitutes bathed in the blood); according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
2 Kings 9:22 (4 Kings in Septuagint):
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
1 Chronicles 5:25:
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
2 Chronicles 21:11:
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
2 Chronicles 21:13 (two places):
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
Psalms 73:27 (72:27 in Septuagint):
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Psalms 106:39 (105:39 in Septuagint):
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Proverbs 5:3:
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 6:26:
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
Proverbs 7:10:
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Proverbs 23:21:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 29:3:
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
Maybe some context there (“spendeth”).
Isaiah 1:21:
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isaiah 23:15:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
Isaiah 23:16:
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Isaiah 47:10:
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted (partly) thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
Isaiah 57:3:
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Isaiah 57:9:
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. (It’s there near the beginning but it doesn’t read the same.)
Jeremiah 2:20:
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:1:
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:2:
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:3:
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:6:
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:7:
And I said after she had done all these things (committing harlotry), Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Jeremiah 3:8:
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Jeremiah 3:9:
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Jeremiah 5:7:
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 13:27:
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Ezekiel 6:9 (two places):
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Ezekiel 16:15 (two places):
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel 16:16:
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Ezekiel 16:17:
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
Ezekiel 16:20:
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
Ezekiel 16:22:
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:24:
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place (for a prostitute), and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:25 (two places):
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way (places of prostitution), and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 16:26 (two places):
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:28 (two places):
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30 (two places):
How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; (prostituted in an additional sentence not in Hebrew)
Ezekiel 16:31 (two places):
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
“Thou scornest hire” actually places harlot into the context of “hire”; and indicating that if it’s not for “hire” then it’s “not been as an harlot.”
Ezekiel 16:33 (two places):
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
“Gifts,” “hirest them,” all falling into context of …πορν…(…porn…).
Ezekiel 16:34 (two places):
And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
“Reward” is in context of …πορν…(…porn…).
Ezekiel 16:35:
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
Ezekiel 16:36:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Ezekiel 16:39:
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
Better known as a whorehouse.
Ezekiel 16:41:
And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
There’s “hire” again in context of …πορν…(…porn…).
Ezekiel 20:30:
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Ezekiel 23:3 (two places):
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Ezekiel 23:5:
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Ezekiel 23:7:
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel 23:8 (two places):
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Ezekiel 23:11:
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:14:
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Ezekiel 23:17:
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Ezekiel 23:18:
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:19 (two places):
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:27:
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
Ezekiel 23:29 (two places):
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:30:
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:35:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:43 (two places):
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Ezekiel 23:44:
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
Ezekiel 43:7:
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Ezekiel 43:9:
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Hosea 1:2 (four places):
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
(There’s actually one more in there)
Hosea 2:2:
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea 2:4:
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Hosea 2:5:
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Hosea 3:3:
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Hosea 4:10:
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Hosea 4:11:
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 4:12:
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Hosea 4:13:
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Hosea 4:14:
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
Hosea 4:18 (two places):
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
(There’s another one in there)
Hosea 5:3:
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
Hosea 5:4:
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
Hosea 6:10 (6:11 in Septuagint):
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hosea 9:1:
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
(Maybe some “reward” context there)
Joel 3:3:
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Amos 7:17:
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Micah 1:7 (two places):
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
There be “hire” twice in the context of …πορν…(…porn…).
Nahum 3:4 (3:3-4 in Septuagint) (three places):
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
(Old Testament – Apocrypha):
Tobit 4:12:
Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father's tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.
Tobit 8:7:
And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:12:
For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life.
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 9:6:
Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance.
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 19:2:
Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 23:16:
Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a fire.
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 23:17:
All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off till he die.
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 23:18 (Codex Alexandrinus):
A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins:
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 23:23:
For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man.
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 26:9:
The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 41:17:
Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 46:11:
And concerning the judges, every one by name, whose heart went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, let their memory be blessed.
Epistle of Jeremiah 11 (Baruch 6:11):
Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood.
New Testament (to compare usage):
Matthew 5:32:
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew 15:19:
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Matthew 19:9:
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Matthew 21:31:
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Matthew 21:32:
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Mark 7:21:
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Luke 15:30:
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
John 8:41:
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Acts 15:20:
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29:
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25:
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Romans 1:29:
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1 Corinthians 5:1 (two places):
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 5:9:
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians 5:10:
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 5:11:
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1 Corinthians 6:9:
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 6:13:
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:15:
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians 6:16:
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:18 (two places):
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:2:
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 10:8 (two places):
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
2 Corinthians 12:21:
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:19:
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 5:3:
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians 5:5:
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Colossians 3:5:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Thessalonians 4:3:
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Timothy 1:10:
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Hebrews 11:31:
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
Hebrews 12:16:
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Hebrews 13:4:
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
James 2:25:
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Jude 1:7:
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Revelation 2:14:
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Revelation 2:20:
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Revelation 2:21:
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Revelation 9:21:
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Revelation 14:8:
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 17:1:
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Revelation 17:2 (two places):
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Revelation 17:4:
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Revelation 17:5:
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Mysterious harlots are definitely synonymous with my definition of marriage: “dishonest prostitution.” And, capital letters are fitting for the “ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” And, “THE EARTH” is kind of a big place, from the view of mankind.
Revelation 17:15:
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Revelation 17:16:
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Revelation 18:3 (two places):
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
“Waxed rich” is context definition for …πορν…(…porn…). By the way, the Greek word for “delicacies” (above) is defined as “insolence, arrogance” in Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, which also gives context to …πορν…(…porn…), which doesn’t make it sound like free sex from the woman.
Revelation 18:9:
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Sounds like prophecy says that …πορν…(…porn…) (sex for hire) will eventually end. I can tell you right now that sex between unmarried persons is not going to end, unless mankind expires; then, God’s got His work ahead of Him to get all the animals to cease unmarried sex. The Book of Revelation devotes three (3) entire chapters to …πορν…(…porn…), and its destruction.
Revelation 19:2 (two places):
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
It’s something that has deceived the entire earth, which makes what I’m working on “big.”
Revelation 21:8:
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15:
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Since …πορν…(…porn…) just means “sex for hire” (as the Bible says), instead of “free sex between unmarried people,” then there have been many who “maketh a lie,” and if you “loveth” that lie because it’s your foremost artificial salvation, then you are going d-o-w-n. Would you really want me to not tell you?
Okay, here are the total counts:
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Old Testament: New Testament: |
whor… |
harlot… |
forn… |
other |
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92 |
44 |
5 |
19 |
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|
9 |
8 |
39 |
1 |
Notice the inconsistent consistency? Again, all that’s from the same Greek word. That’s a Greek Old Testament total of 136 sex for hire uses compared to only 5 for forn…. – And 2 of those are in the more Catholic controlled Apocrypha.
In the New Testament, when …πορν…(…porn…) is in the individual noun form, they used the correct definition of whore and harlot. But when it’s in the rest of the forms, they love condemning innocent people. My speculation: Early English translators had to use the Old Testament sex for money words of whor…, harlot…, etc. just to maintain the same popular stories, and were able to “slip in” forn… five (5) times. But, the New Testament was new and less familiar to new readers (since the printing press); therefore, more open for the King’s (and past King’s) desired corruption.
Now, aside from the two in the Apocrypha (which has few English translations), the above remaining three (3) traditional / standard Old Testament KJV (“…πορν…”) forn…’s are translated as such in other English versions:
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2 Chronicles 21:11: |
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(above) KJV |
commit fornication |
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NKJV |
commit harlotry |
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NIV |
prostitute themselves |
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ESV |
whoredom |
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NASB |
play the harlot |
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ASV |
play the harlot |
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YNG |
commit whoredom |
|
HNV |
play the prostitute |
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Ezekiel 16:15 (2nd instance): |
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|
(above) KJV |
fornications |
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NKJV |
harlotry |
|
NLT |
prostitute |
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ESV |
whoring |
|
NASB |
harlotries |
|
RSV |
harlotries |
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ASV |
whoredoms |
|
YNG |
whoredoms |
|
DBY |
whoredoms |
|
HNV |
prostitution |
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Ezekiel 16:26 (first instance): |
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|
(above) KJV |
fornication |
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NKJV |
harlotry |
|
NIV |
prostitution |
|
ESV |
whore |
|
NASB |
harlot |
|
RSV |
harlot |
|
YNG |
go a-whoring |
(Source: http://www.blueletterbible.org/. Type the verse, click Search, then click the “V” icon next to it to see the other English versions.)
—Therefore, since every sexually pronounced instance of …πορν…(…porn…) in the Greek Old Testament, has been English translated as sex for money, then every instance of forn… (and “sexual immorality”) in the New Testament should comparably translate as sex for money or just “prostitution” (or its [real] equivalent words: whoredom, harlotry, etc.). But, as you can see by the above, the New Testament overwhelmingly doesn’t, just to falsely condemn free sex between single people – which makes pretty clear a major corruption. Again, fornication would need to be consistently valid to be used as the basis word to condemn all sex outside of marriage, and therefore a great deal of innocent people; and, it conclusively isn’t! Most people in prison are convicted with less proof than I have here. And, the above chart proves there’s not one consistent Old Testament KJV instance where it means fornication. It just condemns one kind of sex outside of marriage; and in truth, the essence of marriage is just an organized form of prostitution. The same irrational logic that says: since prostitution is one kind of sex outside of marriage, then it condemns all sex outside of marriage, can also say that since it’s one kind of exchange for money, then it condemns all exchanges for money, regardless of what’s being sold.
Again, today’s churches say …πορν…(…porn…) has to do with sex between two unmarried persons, but there’s no context for unmarried; contrarily, many of the prostitutes were married. But I’d say I have enough (really all) Old Testament translations saying its sex for hire. And, if they “just” want to say it means both, then where’s the word for just “sex for hire”? Otherwise, how would one be able to tell the difference between a woman who has free sex versus one selling it? It’s like, if I tell the Las Vegas hotel bellhop that I need a “prostitute,” he’ll send a service to my room; but, if I tell him I want free sex, he’ll point me towards the nearest bar (where I’d only have to smile).
Here’s a mix of both definitions, but why all the sex for money words if it all includes just any sex outside of marriage?:
A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint: Chiefly of the Pentateuch and the Twelve Prophets, Muraoka, 2002, pp. 475-476:
The phrase “sexual immorality” isn’t explaining exactly what the sexual wrong is. It is used as a cop-out to generically say it is a kind of sexual wrong (prostitution), but connoting (secondarily) today’s church corrupt definition established on the distortion of the same word. Therefore, its use is technically correct, but yet is incorrect as far as how today’s society will perceive it. It other words, “sexual immorality” doesn’t explain the kind sexual wrong to someone who refers only to literal dictionary definitions (like a foreigner would have to), who would not have knowledge of the established prior verbal Church teachings of the word: “immoral” just means a wrong, but today it has also been corrupted to mean any sex outside of marriage, just because that’s the way the corrupt Church teaches. They establish the corruption; then pressure dictionary publishers to add it to the definitions. We all can agree that there are sexual rights and sexual wrongs, and both can be seen so close to each other that to alter the actual difference is very easy: Today’s church has established the key difference is if the sex is outside of “marriage.” That’s the “line” they have drawn, not the Bible! But, the true key difference is if the sex is conditional (e.g. for money, or for marriage). And since both Jesus and Paul stated that marriage is to be avoided, then my findings logically have to be correct. Plus, when the above cited definition specifies the key difference, the terms “brothel,” “prostitute” and “harlot” seems to clarify exactly what the actual sexual “wrong” is. But since the easily understood workings of a general street hooker mostly today has to do with sex between unmarred people, then people (who are gullible) will simply concatenate it with their taught definition of “sexual immorality” instead as seeing it as the actual key definition, even though “marriage” is in no part of the above cited definition. They will see “prostitute” as just one of the ways of having sex outside of marriage, instead of seeing it as the actual base definition. But, since there are many different ways to have sex outside of marriage (man with woman, man with man, group sex, incest, etc), why would all these definitions seem to just elaborate “prostitution”? By the way, a “lie” is also “to convey a false impression.” It is easy for me to see that the writer of the above scan knows that the “key” difference is prostitution, but wishes to falsely convey towards established standards, especially when he uses the words “unfaithfully” and “symbol of” (why not just leave “symbol of” out? – Those are generic words).
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religion, 1979, vol. 2, p. 1380, “FORNICATION (IN THE BIBLE)”:
Just in case you’re trying to redefine prostitute, harlot, etc.:
The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, Achtemeire, 1996, p. 404, “harlot”:
This tells that money for sex was the original Old Testament understandings of the word.
The HEBREW (parallel) word for prostitution:
זנה (characters: He, Nun, Zayin) “zanah” “zah-nah” “ZONA / zonah (today)” Strong # 2181, G/K # 2388-2390
זנונים (characters: Mem, Yod, Nun, Vav, Nun, Zayin) “zaw-noon” “z’noo-neem’” Strong # 2183, G/K # 2393
זנות (characters: Tav, Vav, Nun, Zayin) “zenuwth” “z’nooth” “ZENUTH” Strong # 2184-2185, G/K # 2390, 2394
תזנות (characters: Tav, Vav, Nun, Zayin, Tav) “taznuwth” “taz-nooth” “TAZNUTH” Strong # 8457, G/K # 9373
–Which are all forms of the same word.
All of the above traditional Old Testament three corrupted (Greek “…πορν…”) “fornication” words (see chart) are parts of this same Hebrew word (highlighted below in orange).
This also shows the supporting overwhelming instances of the Hebrew word in yellow (basically the same verses; but, there are some differences between the Hebrew and the Greek Septuagint. In fact, that’s how they know that Jesus’ Old Testament quotations were mostly from the Septuagint):
The Englishman’s Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament, Wigram, 1996 (originally 1843, then corrected in 1874), (KJV with Strong numbers), p. 389:
P. 390 (cont.):
Next column (cont.):
P. 1314:
Again, like the Greek, note how the sex for money words (highlighted in yellow) are overwhelmingly the definition, making the fornication places more correctly defined also as sex for money, not just any sex between single people, because they are the same word of the overwhelming definition. Plus, prostitution definitely designates an association with money or conditions; so, the word can’t mean both sex for money and sex for free, as both are opposites. If it meant any sex outside of marriage, then the money or conditions designation wouldn’t be so overwhelming, as it is when the proper context is difficult to corrupt. Plus, incidentally, any honest person can tell you that marriage has traditionally been just an organized and accepted form of sex for money and/or conditions. So, if anything, the essence of marriage is better paired with prostitution than with free sex. The Church “just” tells you that “marriage” is the line, and amazingly everyone basically “just” believes them.
Debunking the two new “fornication” Hebrew problems (in pink & green above):
Note that Hebrew “fornication” (in pink above) is also used in Isaiah 23:17: The Greek Septuagint uses the words “a mart” (Brenton) which means “a trading center; a market; a place where goods are sold.” Therefore, here, the Old Testament has just elaborated what prostitution / whoredom is:
Isaiah (Esaias) 23:17 (Brenton’s popular Septuagint translation):
http://ecmarsh.com/lxx/Esaias/index.htm, English Translation of the Greek Septuagint Bible, Esaias (Isaiah), “Chapter 23”:
And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
The Greek Septuagint text for “a mart” is εμπόριον (Strong # 1712). Google’s Greek-English translates this as “a trade.” Therefore, using today’s “fornication” in Isaiah 23:17 is definitely incorrect.
A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint; Lust, Eynikel, Hauspie; 1992; part 1; pp. 147-148; “εμπόριον”:
Again, “fornication” (sex for free) doesn’t fit with the merchandising of women. (“Commit fornication” is in the above definition simply because the KJV translates it as such.)
Even the KJV context tells of her “hire,” “merchandise,” etc.:
Isaiah 23:15-18 (KJV):
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
So, the Lord allows prostitution if it’s to feed and clothe others. I don’t see how today’s “fornication” (sex outside of marriage: free sex between singles) could feed and clothe others. Like I’ve said, the Goldenrule is priority to God. Tyre (“Sour” in Lebanon today) was a trading post town on the Mediterranean. Plus, “hire” is in direct context with “fornication” (it’s saying “fornication” is something that is “hire[d]”), therefore my case is conclusive.
Translated in other English versions as:
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Isaiah 23:17: |
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(above) KJV |
she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication |
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NIV |
her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade |
|
ESV |
her wages and will prostitute herself |
|
NASB |
her harlot's wages and will play the harlot |
|
RSV |
she will return to her hire, and will play the harlot |
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ASV |
she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot |
|
HNV |
she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute |
Conclusive, conclusive, conclusive!
Concerning Hebrew “fornication” (in green above) in Ezekiel 16:29, well, the context should explain it:
Ezekiel 16:28-30 (KJV):
28Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
29Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.
30How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
The Septuagint uses the Greek word “διαθήκας” (Strong # 1242) which means “contracts,” “dispositions,” “covenants,” “testaments,” “arrangements,” “institutions,” “dispensations,” “promises,” etc. as there are variations between the Hebrew and the Greek Old Testaments.
Translated in other English versions as:
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Ezekiel 16:29: |
|
|
(above) KJV |
fornication |
|
NKJV |
harlotry |
|
ESV |
whoring |
|
NASB |
harlotry |
|
RSV |
harlotry |
|
ASV |
whoredom |
|
YNG |
whoredoms |
|
DBY |
whoredom |
|
HNV |
prostitution |
By the way, with the above chart, I’ve covered all the traditional Old Testament KJV English fornicat… instances: Total of 5; but there are 39 in the New Testament. – Therefore, there is DEFINITELY a major sex-basis corruption in the English words of the New Testament. And that basis affects EVERYONE’S attitude, whether they have sex outside of marriage or not: Either they feel destructive / degrading false guilt and/or shame (leading them to atheism), or feel they can more break the true Goldenrule message because they believe they have a direct ticket into Heaven by being lucky enough to have a good marriage and/or a low libido.
(Back to the Hebrew word):
The prostitution (part) is defined as “offer sex for hire” and “sells sex for a price”:
(Again, most of the current books spin the word to what modern day Church leaders want it to mean: I’m just showing this to substantiate that “prostitution” is defined as “sex for hire,” etc.)
New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis, VanGemeren, 1997, vol. 1, pp. 1122-1123, “זנה”:
“Little different” only if marriage is the basis. If it means selling something that’s supposed to be free, then marriage is for the same (prostitution) purpose. (“2388” is a G/K number, which refers to the recent NIV translation; which is a great example of moving away from the traditional meaning of prostitution even more, like [in addition to still mostly using prostitution]: “unfaithful,” “adultery,” “sexual immorality,” “lust,” “favors,” “being promiscuous,” “wanton” or whatever they want it to say. For example, if the “prostitute” is married, then they call it adultery, which is incorrect in this form because it implies that she might be just having free sex. “Adultery” is used many times as a different word adjacent to this prostitution word.
This is the Hebrew word for adultery, but it defines zana(h) / zona(h) (prostitution) as “paid for her sexual favors” and “sells her favors for ‘a loaf of bread’”:
Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament; Botterweck / Ringgren; 1998; vol. 9; pp. 113, 114; “נאף” (adultery, for zana[h] / zona[h] definition):
This also connotes that the Hebrew word for adultery (in the Ten Commandments) may have originally also meant just prostitution, and I have a few other Hebrew sources implying the same; but, I haven’t found substantial sources on this as yet, as such a corruption would be much older, and therefore much more difficult to prove; especially today when Hebrew is pretty much controlled by the Jews (where Greek is still used secularly). Admittingly, unlike “fornication” and “agape” (love), I haven’t found any corruption in the Greek word for adultery. In fact, its contractual base definition can be extended to also include the breaking of any marital promise / vow / commitment, including divorce. If I was “making all this [fornication corruption] up” like the disinformation people accuse me of, then I’d “make up” something on adultery also; but, I honestly can’t. Still, my beef is not with people who commit to one another, which violation does beget a “victim” (the spouse): my beef is with those who put down sexually active single people. And, I’ve found much evidence to support the rescinding of the Church condemnation against “victimless” acts. So, the Bible to me still holds with logic; and, I am impressed with such; as many, many, many people today are turning to atheism because of today’s Church still adamantly holding onto their prior lies. It’s like how there’s never going to be a solution to terrorism as long as we don’t admit it mainly has to do with our support of the Jews taking over Palestine; Christianity will never become stable until today’s Church admits the truth about their prior corrupt sexual teachings.
I’ve personally know a lot of people who have become heartbroken and financially disrupted because they trusted someone who divorced them, just because they (the divorcer) changed their mind; therefore, adultery / divorce can be very victimizing to an innocent person (in the status-quo). All the more reason why an open sex society should be sought. Basic needs (free food, clean water, free building materials, etc.) is what God gave us (see my Lewis and Clark pages). Since all that has been monopolized or corrupted by “civilization” (or, “the system”) then fairness dictates that “civilization” (the government or those who reap the most from the system) should pay for everyone’s basic needs. Anything additional, and there is lots of additional now-a-days, should be the basis of what motivates people to come into work. Such would eliminate a tremendous amount of current problems, crime, etc.; and, proof that it would work (be enough to motivate enough people to go to work) is the fact that the vast majority of today’s highly paid people don’t stop working early in the year, every year, once they’ve made enough for basis needs. Most work the entire year, so they will have the optimal amount of all that additional, and work much more enthusiastically. So, a world full of enthusiastic workers has to be “better” that the higher number of that kind in the current United States (compared to other countries). Since these higher number of enthusiastic workers in this country, making it work much better than other countries, should prove that making all the world’s slave-like workers living in the poorest conditions possible, as not the best “motivator.” Rags to riches stories are “few”: not the norm. The most and best motivated workers come from those who start at the top or at least in the middle. Even just a factory job will be enjoyed better when its entire appearance gives the worker 100% “more.” If we’re going to use basic needs as the motivator, thinking we’re getting the most work for the least price, then we might as well bring back slavery. But, no one can say that America hasn’t progressed in the last 145 years. In fact, America has progressed more in the last 145 than in any time in the past. It is because basic wages are better here than in poor countries like Mexico (they come here, and are willing to work for peanuts). So, I say take what works to a higher level (just give the lowest worker more).
Most people on unemployment insurance don’t seek a job because the unemployment is paying for their basic needs. But, the only reason they don’t get a job is because subconsciously they don’t want to lose their deserved free God given basic needs. There’s just something that they can feel as unfair about that. But, if they knew they could keep all of that money and go out and get a job for 100% more (even though it’d have to pay less because of what they’re already getting), they’d do it!
Sorry for going off on the tangent, but this sex corruption issue is so big that it would affect the unfair financial system we now have in place. Statistic shows that since the pill, the marriage standard is eventually on its way out, and that rate will quicken when there are cures for all STDs, so we’re going to have to realize a more fair financial system anyway someday, so why not now?
You see, basic needs provided by the government for everyone would include it for basic needs child support, therefore no “need” for paternal child support, therefore NO NEED FOR MARRIAGE AND MONOGAMY! And, it’d be “guaranteed” child support for our children, like exactly how the school system words. It would also “allow” fathers to better visit their children, than divorced fathers today who evade child support payments; and, those are numerous. In uncivilized Indian lands 200 years ago, children were assets / helpers. Today, they’re burdens. “The system” should pay the bill for their basic needs.
Oh, one problem: gold-digger women won’t have the leverage they have today to get men to do whatever they want, including men’s money and other favors, and mainly their prideful control of men who will sell their soul for her conditions / happiness (Rev. 18:13). Sure sounds like an issue of sex for money to me. So, God had this stuff figured out a long time ago. But, she’s “powerful,” because she is attractive, where men will strongly lust for her with their eyes. Thank God today there’s a pride in women to be “independent.” With that and in an age of effective birth control, all we need are cures for STDs, and I’d say the time will be right… to teach the Bible in honesty. Rev. 17:5: “And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Again, she’s powerful. Extant Babylonian laws talks a lot about marriage and the marriage contractual laws; in fact, I think it’s the oldest of its kind, or oldest pertaining to the root of Judaism (the land that once was The Garden of Eden, which, incidentally, excessive animal grazing destroyed).
The ancient Hebrews may have not even known “why” prostitution was denounced: they had just been told it was. Today, in the age of effective birth control, with marriage on the decline, the full explanation can come to light (Rev. 19:2). You see, with the monopolization of God’s free food and free building materials (to motivate all to work) in the “civilized” world, a woman and her children would starve without the paternal support of marriage. Therefore, God had to allow marriage prior to the pill.
As detailed in one of my prior webpages, “forn…” was the word used in the Latin Vulgate Bible (c. 405 AD) which also just meant “prostitution” in days of the Roman Empire. Then the word slowly changed to condemn all sex outside of marriage, as it is defined today. Therefore, use of the word today in the Bible is incorrect.
Let’s look at some just sexual context (“…πορν…” is not used here):
Leviticus 15 (KJV):
[18] The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they
shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
[19] And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood,
she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
[20] And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be
unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
[21] And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
[22] And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
[23] And if it be on her bed, or
on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth
it, he shall be unclean until the
even.
[24] And if any man lie with her
at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and
all the bed whereon he lieth shall be
unclean.
Sounds like she can copulate “with whom” a man, then have “whosoever” or “any” (doesn’t appear like they have to be married) other men to touch, touch her in her bed, be in her bed, or lie with her at all. The only problem is that those men will also be unclean coming in contact with her vaginal menstrual blood. Also “lie” in verse 24 is defined as having sex in verse 18. Now, today, if I got that close to my neighbor’s wife, where I’d need to bath off her menstrual blood, I’d be in a heap of trouble.
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I like the way the Septuagint (the Greek Christian Old Testament) lays it out:
http://www.apostolicbible.com/downbook.htm, Septuagint Interlinear, Leviticus 15:24:
In straight text:
And if any one should bed down in her bed with her [it even says she’s there], and her uncleanness should be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days. ….
None of these having sex examples are translated from “…πορν…” (or the Hebrew equivalent). Therefore, the ancients did not use “…πορν…” when talking about sex outside of marriage. And, they’re not really putting down the sex outside of marriage act itself, because once a short time has passed, worst case scenario, all is forgiven.