“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.”
Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness. The prohibition on prostituting daughters communicates the paternal responsibility for the daughter's sexual dignity. The land will turn to prostitution warning grounds the personal prohibition in communal consequence: the community whose daughters are degraded becomes a degraded community. The covenant community's sexual ethics are not only about individual conduct but about the character of the community that individual conduct shapes.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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