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18 Do not bring a male or female prostitute’s pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord. The Lord your God hates prostitution.

19 You may loan your fellow Israelite money or food or anything else. But don’t make him pay back more than what you loaned him. 20 You may charge a foreigner, but not a fellow Israelite. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do. He will bless you in the land you are entering to take as your own.

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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)

19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.(B) 20 You may charge a foreigner(C) interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless(D) you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog