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Lexicon :: Strong's H2181 - zānâ

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זָנָה
Transliteration
zānâ
Pronunciation
zaw-naw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [highly-fed and therefore wanton]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 563

Strong’s Definitions

זָנָה zânâh, zaw-naw'; a primitive root [highly fed and therefore wanton]; to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah):—(cause to) commit fornication, × continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 93x

The KJV translates Strong's H2181 in the following manner: ...harlot (36x), go a whoring (19x), ...whoredom (15x), whore (11x), commit fornication (3x), whorish (3x), harlot (with H802) (2x), commit (1x), continually (1x), great (1x), whore's (with H802) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 93x
The KJV translates Strong's H2181 in the following manner: ...harlot (36x), go a whoring (19x), ...whoredom (15x), whore (11x), commit fornication (3x), whorish (3x), harlot (with H802) (2x), commit (1x), continually (1x), great (1x), whore's (with H802) (1x).

  1. to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be a harlot, act as a harlot, commit fornication

      2. to commit adultery

      3. to be a cult prostitute

      4. to be unfaithful (to God) (fig.)

    2. (Pual) to play the harlot

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to cause to commit adultery

      2. to force into prostitution

      3. to commit fornication

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
זָנָה zânâh, zaw-naw'; a primitive root [highly fed and therefore wanton]; to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah):—(cause to) commit fornication, × continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
STRONGS H2181: Abbreviations
† זָנָה verb commit fornication, be a harlot (Arabic زَنَى commit fornication, Aramaic axnz, זנא; compare Ethiopic ዘንየት፡ effusio seminis virilis, seman effusum, Di1055; on this and ዘመወ፡ (compare by Ges and others) see PrätBAS i. 32, Anm.) —
Qal Perfect ז׳ Deuteronomy 31:16, זָֽנְתָה Genesis 38:34 [Genesis 38:24] + 3 times, etc.; Imperfect יִזְנֶ֯ה (Kt) Ezekiel 23:43; תִּזְנֶה Leviticus 19:29 + 4 times; וַתִּ֫זֶן Jeremiah 3:8; Ezekiel 23:5; תִּזְנִי Hosea 3:3; וַתִּזְנִי Jeremiah 3:6 (but read probably וַתִּזְנִי ׃וַתִּזֶן is not Aramaic form of 3rd person feminine singular, see Köi. 540 Kau§ 47 g b) Ezekiel 16:15 + 4 times; וַתִּזְנִים Ezekiel 16:28; יִזְנוּ (Qr) Ezekiel 23:43; וַיִּזְנוּ Judges 8:27 + 4 times; תִּזְנֶינָה Hosea 4:13, 14; וַתִּזְנֶינָה Ezekiel 23:3; Infinitive absolute זָנֹה Hosea 1:2; construct לִזְנוֺת Leviticus 20:5 + 3 times; לִזְנֹת Leviticus 20:6; suffix בִּזְנוֺתֵךְ Ezekiel 23:30; Participle זוֺנֶה Psalm 73:27; Ezekiel 6:9; זֹנֶה Hosea 4:15; plural זֹנִים Leviticus 17:7 + 3 times; זוֺנָה Deuteronomy 23:19 + 25 times; זֹנָה Leviticus 21:7 + 2 times; זוֺנוֺת Proverbs 29:3; זֹנוֺת Hosea 4:14 + 4 times —
1. be or act as a harlot, absolute Genesis 38:24 (J), Deuteronomy 22:21 (D), Leviticus 21:9 (H), Hosea 4:13, 14; Amos 7:17; זונה + (ה)אשׁה Joshua 2:1; Joshua 6:22 (J), Leviticus 21:7 (H), Judges 11:1; Judges 16:1; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 23:44; זוֺנָה Genesis 34:31; Genesis 38:15; Joshua 6:17, 25 (all J), Deuteronomy 23:19; Leviticus 21:14 (H), Proverbs 7:10; Proverbs 23:27; Isaiah 23:15, 16; Joel 4:3; Micah 1:7 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 16:31; נָשִׁים זֹנוֺת 1 Kings 3:16; ז(ו)נות [H2185 1 Kings 22:38]; Proverbs 29:3; Hosea 3:3; Hosea 4:14; Ezekiel 16:33; בית זונה Jeremiah 5:7; commit fornication, man's act אל ז׳ Numbers 25:1 (J); of woman's act Judges 19:2; of land given to harlotry Leviticus 19:29.
2. figurative of improper intercourse with foreign nations (religious reference sometimes involved) את ז׳ Isaiah 23:17; אחרי Ezekiel 23:30; אל Ezekiel 16:26, 28 (twice in verse); תַזְנוּתיה ז׳ Ezekiel 23:43; Nahum 3:4; וַתִּזֶן אָהֳלָה תַחְתָּ֑י and Ohola committed fornication (whilst) under me Ezekiel 23:5 (compare Numbers 5:19).
3. of intercourse with other deities, considered as harlotry, sometimes involving actual prostitution, אחרי ז׳ Exodus 34:15, 16; Deuteronomy 31:16 (all J), Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 20:5 (twice in verse) (all H), Judges 2:17; Judges 8:27, 33; 1 Chronicles 5:25; Ezekiel 6:9; Ezekiel 20:30; after אֹבֹת, etc. Leviticus 20:6 (H), one's own heart & eyes Numbers 15:39 (H); especially of Israel, Judah, and Jerusalem under figure of lewd woman Ezekiel 16:15 (absolute) Ezekiel 16:16 (על במית), Ezekiel 16:17 (בְ ז׳), Ezekiel 23:3 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 23:19 (absolute), Jeremiah 3:1 (with accusative); Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 3:8 (absolute); absolute elsewhere Hosea 2:7; Hosea 4:15; Isaiah 57:3; Psalm 106:39; as leaving י׳, followed by מֵעַל Hosea 9:1; מאחרי Hosea 1:2 (twice in verse); מתחת Hosea 4:12; followed by מן alone Psalm 73:27; ז(ו)נה Jeremiah 2:20; Ezekiel 16:35, 41; בית זונה Jeremiah 5:7; לִבָּם הַזּוֺנֶה their whorish heart Ezekiel 6:9.
4. זונה of moral defection Isaiah 1:21.
Pu. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular אַהֲרַיִךְ לֹא זוּנָּה fornication was not done (in going) after thee Ezekiel 16:34 (but strike out Co).
Hiph. Perfect 2nd person masculine singular הִזְנֵיתָ Hosea 5:3; 3rd person plural חִזְנוּ Hosea 4:10, 18; Exodus 34:16; Imperfect וַיֶּ֫זֶן 2 Chronicles 21:11; וַתַּזְנֶה 2 Chronicles 21:13; Infinitive absolute הַזְנֵה Hosea 4:18; construct הַזְנוֺת 2 Chronicles 21:13; suffix לְהַזְנוֺתָהּ Leviticus 19:29.
1. cause to commit fornication:
a. sexual Leviticus 19:29 (H).
b. religious Exodus 34:16 (J), 2 Chronicles 21:11, 13 (twice in verse).
2. commit fornication:
a. sexual Hosea 4:10.
b. religious Hosea 4:18 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:3.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:31; 38:15; 38:24; 38:24

Exodus

34:15; 34:16; 34:16; 34:16

Leviticus

17:7; 17:7; 19:29; 19:29; 19:29; 19:29; 20:5; 20:5; 20:6; 20:6; 21:7; 21:7; 21:9; 21:14

Numbers

5:19; 15:39; 25:1

Deuteronomy

22:21; 23:19; 23:19; 31:16; 31:16

Joshua

2:1; 6:17; 6:22; 6:25

Judges

2:17; 8:27; 8:27; 8:33; 11:1; 16:1; 19:2

1 Kings

3:16

1 Chronicles

5:25

2 Chronicles

21:11; 21:11; 21:13; 21:13; 21:13

Psalms

73:27; 73:27; 106:39

Proverbs

6:26; 7:10; 23:27; 29:3; 29:3

Isaiah

1:21; 23:15; 23:16; 23:17; 57:3

Jeremiah

2:20; 3:1; 3:3; 3:6; 3:6; 3:8; 3:8; 5:7; 5:7

Ezekiel

6:9; 6:9; 6:9; 16:15; 16:15; 16:16; 16:17; 16:26; 16:28; 16:28; 16:30; 16:31; 16:33; 16:34; 16:35; 16:41; 20:30; 23:3; 23:3; 23:5; 23:5; 23:19; 23:30; 23:30; 23:43; 23:43; 23:43; 23:44

Hosea

1:2; 1:2; 2:7; 3:3; 3:3; 4:10; 4:10; 4:12; 4:13; 4:13; 4:14; 4:14; 4:14; 4:14; 4:15; 4:15; 4:18; 4:18; 4:18; 5:3; 5:3; 9:1

Amos

7:17

Micah

1:7

Nahum

3:4

H2181

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Strong's Number H2181 matches the Hebrew זָנָה (zānâ),
which occurs 93 times in 81 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 34:31–Eze 16:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:15 - When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, because she had covered her face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - And it came to pass, about three months after, that Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; furthermore she is with child by harlotry.” So Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:15 - “lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:16 - “and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7 - “They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.” ’

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:29 - ‘Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:5 - ‘then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:6 - ‘And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7 - ‘They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest[fn] is holy to his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:9 - ‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - ‘A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - “And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:1 - Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove,[fn] and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - “then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - “You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the LORD your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - And the LORD said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove[fn] to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - “Now the city shall be doomed by the LORD to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:22 - But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, “Go into the harlot’s house, and from there bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - Then Gideon made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, Ophrah. And all Israel played the harlot with it there. It became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - So it was, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-Berith their god.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2 - But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four whole months.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:25 - And they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:11 - Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit harlotry, and led Judah astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot like the harlotry of the house of Ahab, and also have killed your brothers, those of your father’s household, who were better than yourself,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:27 - For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish;
You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:39 - Thus they were defiled by their own works,
And played the harlot by their own deeds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:26 - For by means of a harlot
A man is reduced to a crust of bread;
And an adulteress[fn] will prey upon his precious life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:10 - And there a woman met him,
With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a harlot is a deep pit,
And a seductress is a narrow well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:3 - Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice,
But a companion of harlots wastes his wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - How the faithful city has become a harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now murderers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 - Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:16 - “Take a harp, go about the city,
You forgotten harlot;
Make sweet melody, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:17 - And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:3 - “But come here,
You sons of the sorceress,
You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And you said, ‘I will not transgress,’
When on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, playing the harlot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man’s,
May he return to her again?’
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
But you have played the harlot with many lovers;
Yet return to Me,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a harlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - “Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7 - “How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And sworn by those that are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - “Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 - “But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - “You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.

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