I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; Because the men consort with prostitutes, And they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; And the people that does not understand will come to ruin.
"With harlots ... with prostitutes ..." The two classes here are to distinguish between ordinary women who were immoral and the "cult prostitutes" who were the devotees and attendants of the pagan shrines, such female panderers to human lust being designated "holy ones" in the perverted pagan culture.  Both male and female prostitutes were employed at the pagan shrines and high places; and these were called "[~qadesh]," usually translated "sodomites," and "[~qedeshah]," translated "prostitutes" in this passage.[37]  These words actually mean "holy ones," after the ancient meaning of the term holy, dedicated to a god.  In the same sense, Christians are called "holy"; "But of course, moral and ethical values enter when one is dedicated to the true God."[38]