Cult Prostitution Forbidden

¹⁷ ‘No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.

²⁴ there were even male cult prostitutes in the land.^(A) They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.^(B)

¹² He banished the male cult prostitutes^(A) from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.^(B)