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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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Footnotes

  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.

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.

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