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No common prostitute, such, as were tolerated and encouraged by the Gentiles, and used even in their religious worship.
Of the daughters of Israel; not that such practices were allowed to the strangers among them, as is evident from many scriptures and reasons, but that it was in a peculiar manner, and upon special reasons, forbidden to them, as being much more odious in them than in strangers; though the words may be rendered among the daughters, and so in the following clause, among the sons, for the Hebrew mem is sometimes used in that sense, as Num_22:22 Psa_31:12, and so it notes that none of that sort should be permitted among them, whether Jews or strangers.
A sodomite; who defileth or suffereth himself to be defiled with mankind. See Gen_19:5 Lev_18:12 1Ki_14:24 22:46 Rom_1:27.