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16 Let them live among you anywhere they want to. Let them live in any town they choose. Don’t treat them badly.

17 A man or woman in Israel must not become a temple prostitute. 18 The Lord your God hates the money that men and women get for being prostitutes. So don’t take that money into the house of the Lord to pay what you promised to give.

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16 Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress(A) them.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog