Zevachim 116B

דאפילו אקשויי נמי לא אקשו. ומנא ידעה? דאמר מר: אין לך כל שר ונגיד שלא בא על רחב הזונה.

The Talmud replies that Rahab used this phrase euphemistically, to say that their fear was so great that their male organs were not even able to become erect, as “kama” also means rise. The Talmud asks: And how did Rahab know this? The Talmud replies: As the Master said: You do not have any prince or ruler at that time who did not have sex with Rahab the prostitute.

אמרו: בת עשר שנים היתה כשיצאו ישראל ממצרים, וזנתה [כל] ארבעים שנה שהיו ישראל במדבר. אחר חמישים שנה נתגיירה, אמרה: ״יהא מחול לי בשכר חבל חלון ופשתים״.

The Talmud adds that the rabbis said with regard to Rahab: She was 10 years old when the Jewish people left Egypt, and she engaged in prostitution all 40 years that the Jewish people were in the wilderness. After that, when she was 50 years old, she converted when the two spies visited her. She said: May all of my sins of prostitution be forgiven me as a reward for having endangered myself with the rope, window, and flax, by means of which I saved Joshua’s two spies. Rahab first concealed the spies in stalks of flax, and later assisted them in exiting her home by lowering them from the window with a rope (see Joshua 2:6 and 2:15).

אמר מר: וגוים בזמן הזה רשאין לעשות כן. מנא הני מילי? דתנו רבנן: ״דבר אל בני ישראל״⁠ – בני ישראל מצווין על שחוטי חוץ, ואין הגוים מצווין על שחוטי חוץ.

§ The Master said in the baraita that discussed the sacrifice of offerings before the construction of the Tabernacle: And today non-Jews are permitted to do so, i.e., to sacrifice offerings outside the Temple courtyard, despite the fact that this is forbidden for the Jews. The Talmud asks: From where are these matters derived? As A baraita states with regard to the verses that prohibit the slaughter of offerings outside the Temple: “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel” (Leviticus 17:2). This indicates that only Jews are commanded with regard to offerings slaughtered outside the Temple, but non-Jews are not commanded with regard to offerings slaughtered outside the Temple.