Endnote 4 – Cult Prostitution in Ancient Israel?

The feminine plural ending is found in Judges 3:7, where it is a scribal error, then in 2 Chronicles 19:3, 33:3; Temple Scroll (11Q19) 51:20; Mishnah Abodah Zarah 3:7; Tosefta Abodah Zarah 6:8. In Judges 3:7, a few Hebrew manuscripts and the Vulgate, based on a manuscript from the fourth century C.E. or earlier, read Ashtoreth, like in the parallel passages of Judges 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4, 12:10. No corresponding Qumran text is preserved.