¹⁸ You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute^[a] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.^(A)

²³ They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones^(A) and Asherah poles^(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.^{(C) 24} There were even male shrine prostitutes^(D) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable^(E) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

⁷ He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes^(A) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.