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Deuteronomy 23:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s  earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfil any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.

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Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil  workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.


Outside are the dogs,   the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.


Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs,   or they will trample them under their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.


It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit,   , and, ‘A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.’


Your eyes  are too pure  to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous? Why are you silent while one  who is wicked swallows up one  who is more righteous than himself?


Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favours.


For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and injustice; I will faithfully reward my people and make a permanent covenant  with them.


As a dog returns to its vomit, so also a fool repeats his foolishness.


‘If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because he will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.


You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman;  it is detestable.


‘The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord.  For I am a great King,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and my name will be feared among the nations.


You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions,  your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.


‘If the sacrifice he offers is a vow  or a freewill offering,  it is to be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and what is left over may be eaten on the next day.


‘Do not debase  , your daughter by making her a prostitute,  or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.


If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman,  they have both committed a detestable act.  They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.


they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.


All her carved images will be smashed  to pieces; all her wages  will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again for a prostitute.


there were even male cult prostitutes in the land.  They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.





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