¹⁶ So he stopped and propositioned her. “Let me have sex with you,” he said, not realizing that she was his own daughter-in-law.

“How much will you pay to have sex with me?” Tamar asked.

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

¹⁵ and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.

¹¹ But as she was feeding him, he grabbed her and demanded, “Come to bed with me, my darling sister.”

³³ Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.

¹⁸ When you are bringing an offering to fulfill a vow, you must not bring to the house of the Lord your God any offering from the earnings of a prostitute, whether a man^[a] or a woman, for both are detestable to the Lord your God.