18 You shall not bring the earnings of a prostitute or the money for a [a](A)dog into the house of the Lord your God as payment for any vowed offering, because both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:18 Prob. refers to a male prostitute

18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute[a] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.(A)

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog

23 For they, too, built for themselves (A)high places, (B)memorial stones, and [a](C)Asherim on every high hill and (D)under every luxuriant tree. 24 There were also (E)male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed [b]all the same abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

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  1. 1 Kings 14:23 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
  2. 1 Kings 14:24 Lit according to all

23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones(A) and Asherah poles(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.(C) 24 There were even male shrine prostitutes(D) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable(E) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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And he tore down the cubicles of the (A)male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where (B)the women were weaving [a]hangings for the Asherah.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:7 Or dresses

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes(A) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

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