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Genesis 38:21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

21 So he asked the men of that place, “Where is the prostitute,[a] the one by the roadside in Enaim?” But they answered, “No prostitute has been here.”

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  1. 38:21 Prostitute: the Hebrew term qedesha, lit., “consecrated woman,” designates a woman associated with a sanctuary whose activities could include prostitution; cf. Dt 23:18; Hos 4:14, where the same Hebrew word is used. In 38:15 and 24 the common word for prostitute, zona, is used.
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