Deuteronomy 23
1 The one wounded by crushing or by the cutting of his genitals may
not enter to the assembly of Yahweh ...
17 No daughter of Israel shall become a qdesha; no son of Israel
shall become a qadesh; you shall not bring zona earnings
or
keleb money into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow, for
both of them are indeed detestable to Yahweh your God.
Notes:
Re 1: Although the Hebrew word for eunuch saris appears 45 times
throughout the Hebrew scriptures, it is not used in connection with this
verse that prohibits castrated men from entering into the assembly of Yahweh.
Moreover, in Jeremiah 34:19, some sarisim are reported to have taken
part in a religious rite, which would have been a violation of this verse
if sarisim were castrated.
Re 17: qdesha and qadesh are both words that come from the Semitic root q-d-sh, meaning holy. They were temple personnel in Babylonian cults. A zona was a female prostitute, and a keleb was a male gigolo, assuming a connection between the keleb and the kulu'u of Mesopotamian goddess cults.