OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 16:25

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25

You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

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Verse 25. Sign; altars of idols. Bible.—She makes no secret of her apostacy. The Greeks and Romans marked the houses of prostitutes, that honest men might avoid them. “The deemed the profession of such a crime a sufficient punishment to repress impure women.” Tacit. Annal.

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