Deuteronomy 12:18
12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he 1 chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites 2 in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor. 3
Deuteronomy 16:11
16:11 You shall rejoice before him 4 – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, 5 the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 23:18
23:18 You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute 6 or the wage of a male prostitute 7 into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:68
28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
1 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.
2 tn See note at Deut 12:12.
3 tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”
4 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.
5 tn Heb “gates.”
6 tn Here the Hebrew term זוֹנָה (zonah) refers to a noncultic (i.e., “secular”) female prostitute; see note on the phrase “sacred prostitute” in v. 17.
7 tn Heb “of a dog.” This is the common Hebrew term for a noncultic (i.e., “secular”) male prostitute. See note on the phrase “sacred male prostitute” in v. 17.