Deuteronomy 23:18

23:18 You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute ¹  or the wage of a male prostitute ²  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 24:4

24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry ³  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. ⁴  You must not bring guilt on the land ⁵  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 25:16

25:16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent ⁶  to the Lord your God.

Proverbs 6:16

6:16 There are six things that the Lord hates,

even ⁷  seven ⁸  things that are an abomination to him: ⁹ 

Proverbs 11:1

11:1 The Lord abhors ¹⁰  dishonest scales, ¹¹ 

but an accurate weight ¹²  is his delight.

Proverbs 15:8

15:8 The Lord abhors ¹³  the sacrifices ¹⁴  of the wicked, ¹⁵ 

but the prayer ¹⁶  of the upright pleases him. ¹⁷ 

Proverbs 20:10

20:10 Diverse weights and diverse measures ¹⁸  –

the Lord abhors ¹⁹  both of them.

¹ 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.

² 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.

³ tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

⁴ sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.

⁵ tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).

⁶ tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

⁷ tn The conjunction has the explicative use here (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 71, §434).

⁸ sn This saying involves a numerical ladder, paralleling six things with seven things (e.g., also 30:15, 18, 21, 24, 29). The point of such a numerical arrangement is that the number does not exhaust the list (W. M. Roth, “The Numerical Sequence x / x +1 in the Old Testament,” VT 12 [1962]: 300-311; and his “Numerical Sayings in the Old Testament,” VT 13 [1965]: 86).

⁹ tn Heb “his soul.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “an abomination of the Lord.” The term יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the Lord”) is a subjective genitive.

¹¹ tn Heb “scales of deception.” The genitive is attributive: “deceptive scales.” This refers to dishonesty in the market where silver was weighed in the scales. God condemns dishonest business practices (Deut 25:13-16; Lev 10:35-36), as did the ancient Near East (ANET 388, 423).

¹² tn Heb “a perfect stone.” Stones were used for measuring amounts of silver on the scales; here the stone that pleases the Lord is whole, complete, perfect (from שָׁלֵם, shalem). It was one that would give an honest, accurate measurement.

¹³ tn Heb “an abomination of the Lord.” The term יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the Lord”) functions as a subjective genitive: “the Lord abhors.” Cf. NIV “the Lord detests”; NCV, NLT “the Lord hates”; CEV “the Lord is disgusted.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “sacrifice” (so many English versions).

¹⁵ sn The sacrifices of the wicked are hated by the Lord because the worshipers are insincere and blasphemous (e.g., Prov 15:29; 21:3; 28:9; Ps 40:6-8; Isa 1:10-17). In other words, the spiritual condition of the worshiper determines whether or not the worship is acceptable to God.

¹⁶ sn J. H. Greenstone notes that if God will accept the prayers of the upright, he will accept their sacrifices; for sacrifice is an outer ritual and easily performed even by the wicked, but prayer is a private and inward act and not usually fabricated by unbelievers (Proverbs, 162).

¹⁷ tn Heb “[is] his pleasure.” The 3rd person masculine singular suffix functions as a subjective genitive: “he is pleased.” God is pleased with the prayers of the upright.

¹⁸ tn The construction simply uses repetition to express different kinds of weights and measures: “a stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “an abomination of the Lord.” The phrase features a subjective genitive: “the Lord abhors.”