Ezekiel 23:20

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

And she lusts on their lovers, || Whose flesh [is] the flesh of donkeys, || And the emission of horses—their emission.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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.

GNV

For she doted vpon their seruants whose members are as the members of asses, and whose yssue is like the yssue of horses.

JPS

And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

LXXE

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

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WLC

וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה עַ֖ל פִּֽלַגְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּשַׂר־חֲמוֹרִים֙ בְּשָׂרָ֔ם וְזִרְמַ֥ת סוּסִ֖ים זִרְמָתָֽם׃

LXX-Br

καὶ ἐπέθου ἐπὶ τοὺς Χαλδαίους, ὧν ὡς ὄνων αἱ σάρκες αὐτῶν, καὶ αἰδοῖα ἵππων τὰ αἰδοῖα αὐτῶν,

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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?’
• Ezekiel 16:26You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
• 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?
• Jeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

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