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Ezekiel 23:20

Sin

18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
KJV
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
WEB
She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
ASV
And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
DARBY
and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is [as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue is [as] the issue of horses.
BLB
and lusted after their lovers, [for] whom the flesh of donkeys [is] the flesh, and the emission of stallions [was] their emission.
ÅB
og hun ble opptent av elskov til horkarlene der, hvis kjøtt var som eselkjøtt, og hvis utflod var som hesters utflod.
OTB
Hun begjærte sine elskere, hvis kjøtt var som eslers og hvis utflod var som hesters.
B1930
og hun optendtes av elskov til horkarlene der, hvis kjøtt var som aseners kjøtt, og hvis utflod var som hesters utflod.

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 17:15

    But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

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  • Ezekiel 16:26

    Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

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  • Jeremiah 5:8

    They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

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  • Ezekiel 16:20

    Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

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