Ezekiel 16:33
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33 Gifts are given to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from all around for your prostitutions.(A)
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Hosea 8:9-10
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
a wild ass wandering alone;
Ephraim has bargained for lovers.(A)
10 Though they bargain with the nations,
I will now gather them up.
They shall soon writhe
under the burden of kings and princes.(B)
Isaiah 57:9
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9 You journeyed to Molech[a] with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your envoys far away
and sent them down to Sheol.(A)
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Luke 15:30
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30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’(A)
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Micah 1:7
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7 All her images shall be beaten to pieces,
all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste;
for as the wages of a prostitute she gathered them,
and as the wages of a prostitute they shall again be used.(A)
Joel 3:3
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3 and cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes and sold girls for wine and drunk it down.(A)
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Hosea 2:12
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12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
of which she said,
“These are my pay,
which my lovers have given me.”
I will make them a forest,
and the wild animals shall devour them.(A)
Ezekiel 16:41
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41 They shall burn your houses and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; I will stop you from prostituting yourself, and you shall also make no more payments.(A)
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Isaiah 30:6-7
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6 An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and distress,
of lioness and roaring[a] lion,
of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels
to a people that cannot profit them.(A)
7 For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her,
“Rahab who sits still.”[b](B)
Isaiah 30:3
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3 Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.(A)
Deuteronomy 23:17-18
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17 “None of the daughters of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine; none of the sons of Israel shall serve in an illicit shrine.(A) 18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.
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Genesis 38:16-18
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16 He went over to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17 He answered, “I will send you a kid from the flock.” And she said, “Only if you give me a pledge until you send it.”(A) 18 He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord and the staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.(B)
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