◄ Ezekiel 23:20 ►
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Good News Translation
She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions." (

New Revised Standard Version
and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Contemporary English Version
She eagerly wanted to go to bed with Egyptian men, who were famous for their sexual powers.

New American Bible
She lusted for the lechers of Egypt, whose members are like those of donkeys, whose thrusts are like those of stallions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.

Ezekiel 16:20,26 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small? . . .

Ezekiel 17:15 But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?

Context
The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah
…19For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.21And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:26
And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy fornications to provoke me.

Ezekiel 17:15
But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?

Ezekiel 23:16
She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

Ezekiel 23:19
For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:19
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