Ezekiel 23:20
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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
In other translations
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
Hebrew words
וַתַּעְגְּבָהvata'gevahand she lusted !H5689עַל'alonH5921פִּלַגְשֵׁיהֶםpilagsheihemparamours theirH6370אֲשֶׁר'asherwhomH834בְּשַׂר־besar-[was the] flesh ofH1320חֲמוֹרִיםchamorimdonkeysH2543בְּשָׂרָםbesaramflesh theirH1320וְזִרְמַתvezirmatand [was the] ejaculation ofH2231סוּסִיםsusimhorsesH5483זִרְמָתָם׃zirmatamejaculation theirH2231
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Ezekiel 17:15But 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?But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’
- Ezekiel 16:26Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
- Jeremiah 5:8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- Ezekiel 16:20Moreover 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,You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
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