Ezekiel 23:20
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezekiel 23:20 in other translations
| BSB | and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh is the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses--their issue. |
| DARBY | and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses. |
| BBE | And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses. |
| Webster | For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. |
What does Ezekiel 23:20 mean?
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Ezekiel 23:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 23:20
- Ezekiel 17:15
But 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?
- Ezekiel 16:26
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 5:8
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
- Ezekiel 16:20
Moreover 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,
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Context
- Ezekiel 23:19
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 23:20
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
- Ezekiel 23:21
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Ezekiel 23:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y enamoróse de sus rufianes, cuya carne es como carne de asnos, y cuyo flujo como flujo de caballos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et elle se passionna pour ses concubins, dont la chair est comme la chair des ânes, et dont le flux est comme le flux des chevaux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und sie entbrannte gegen dessen Buhlen, deren Fleisch wie das Fleisch der Esel, und deren Erguß wie der Erguß der Rosse ist. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et insanivit libidine super concubitum eorum, quorum carnes sunt ut carnes asinorum, et sicut fluxus equorum fluxus eorum. |