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Ezekiel 23:20
Ezekiel 23:20 is verse 20 of Ezekiel chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
King James Version
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
World English Bible
She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
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Ezekiel 23:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
20 and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
21 So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.
22 Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ezekiel 16:20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
Ezekiel 16:26You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 17:15But 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?’
Jeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.