Ezekiel 23:20
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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.

Lexicon
and lusted
וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה (wat·ta‘·gə·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5689: To have inordinate affection, lust

after
עַ֖ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

their lovers,
פִּֽלַגְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם (pi·laḡ·šê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6370: A concubine, a paramour

whose
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

genitals
בְּשַׂר־ (bə·śar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

were like those
בְּשָׂרָ֔ם (bə·śā·rām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

of donkeys
חֲמוֹרִים֙ (ḥă·mō·w·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2543: A male ass

and whose emission
וְזִרְמַ֥ת (wə·zir·maṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2231: A gushing of fluid

was like that
זִרְמָתָֽם׃ (zir·mā·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2231: A gushing of fluid

of stallions.
סוּסִ֖ים (sū·sîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5483: A swallow, swift (type of bird)


Additional Translations
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.For she doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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

and thou didst dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their members as the members of horses.

and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is [as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue is [as] the issue of horses.

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

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

She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh is the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses -- their issue.
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