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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Footnotes

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

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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Footnotes

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

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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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:7 Or dresses

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