⁵ They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”^(A)

¹⁷ No Israelite man^(A) or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.^(B)

²⁴ There were even male shrine prostitutes^(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable^(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

¹² He expelled the male shrine prostitutes^(A) from the land and got rid of all the idols^(B) his ancestors had made.

⁷ 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.

⁷ In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah^(A) and the surrounding towns^(B) gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.^(C)