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I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
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Verse 14. Visit. This is the most dreadful of God’s judgments. He permits those who offend him to receive discontent from their own families.—Effeminate, like the Galli, and so forth (Saint Jerome) and votaries of Priapus. 3 Kennicott. 15:11. Hebrew “the consecrated women.” Septuagint “initiated,” to honour a lewd idol by prostitution. Calmet.—Beaten. Septuagint “adhere to a harlot. But thou, Israel, be not ignorant, and Juda go,” and so forth Bible.
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