OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 16:31

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in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

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Verse 31. Price, before she will yield, ( Bible.) or who follow such practices for a livelihood. Calmet.—Hebrew “in that thou scornest hire.” Prot. Septuagint “gathering rewards.” The difference consisted in Jerusalem’s sinning through mere wantonness, and even to her loss.

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