¹⁶ Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

¹⁶ And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.

²⁹ Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

² They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,

¹⁷ No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

¹ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.

¹ Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.

¹³ Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.