²¹ He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute^(A) who was beside the road at Enaim?”

“There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.

²⁴ There were even male shrine prostitutes^(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable^(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

¹⁶ You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places,^(A) where you carried on your prostitution.^(B) You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.^[a]