Verse 3
Ezekiel 23:3
Geneva Bible
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And they committed fornication in Egypt, they committed fornication in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teates of their virginitie.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תִּזְנֶ֣ינָה בְ/מִצְרַ֔יִם בִּ/נְעוּרֵי/הֶ֖ן זָנ֑וּ שָׁ֚מָּ/ה מֹעֲכ֣וּ שְׁדֵי/הֶ֔ן וְ/שָׁ֣ם עִשּׂ֔וּ דַּדֵּ֖י בְּתוּלֵי/הֶֽן
English Translation
And they prostituted themselves in Egypt; in their youth, they acted like harlots there; they allowed their breasts to be crushed and there they made their virgin breasts bare.
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Chapter 23 Context
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The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,
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Sonne of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
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And they committed fornication in Egypt, they committed fornication in their youth: there were their...
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And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they b...
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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she was set on fire with her louers, to wit, wit...
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Which were clothed with blewe silke, both captaines and princes: they were all pleasant yong men, an...
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Thus she committed her whoredome with them, euen with all them that were the chosen men of Asshur, a...
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Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, and...
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Wherefore I deliuered her into the hands of her louers, euen into the hands of the Assyrians, vpon w...
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These discouered her shame: they tooke away her sonnes and her daughters, and slewe her with the swo...
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And when her sister Aholibah sawe this, she marred her selfe with inordinate loue, more then she, an...
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She doted vpon the Assyrians her neighbours, both captaines and princes clothed with diuers sutes, h...
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Then I sawe that she was defiled, and that they were both after one sort,
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And that she encreased her fornications: for when she sawe men painted vpon the wall, the images of...
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And girded with girdles vpon their loynes, and with dyed attyre vpon their heads (looking all like p...
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Assoone, I say, as she sawe them, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.
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Nowe when the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, they defiled her with their fornication,...
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So she discouered her fornication, and disclosed her shame: then mine heart forsooke her, like as mi...
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Yet she encreased her whoredome more, and called to remembrance ye dayes of her youth, wherein she h...
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For she doted vpon their seruants whose members are as the members of asses, and whose yssue is like...
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Thou calledst to remembrance the wickednes of thy youth, when thy teates were bruised by ye Egyptian...
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Therefore, O Aholibah, thus sayeth the Lord God (Elohim), Beholde, I will raise vp thy louers agains...
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To wit, the Babylonians, and all the Caldeans, Peked, and Shoah, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with...
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Euen these shall come against thee with charets, waggons, and wheeles, and with a multitude of peopl...
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And I wil lay mine indignation vpon thee, and they shall deale cruelly with thee: they shall cut off...
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They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fayre iewels.
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Thus wil I make thy wickednes to cease from thee and thy fornication out of the land of Egypt: so th...
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For thus saith the Lord God (Elohim), Behold, I wil deliuer thee into the hand of them, whome thou h...
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And they shall handle thee despitefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leaue thee na...
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I wil doe these things vnto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because th...
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Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister: therefore wil I giue her cup into thine hand.
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Thus saith ye Lord God (Elohim), Thou shalt drinke of thy sisters cup, deepe and large: thou shalt b...
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Thou shalt be filled with drunkennes and sorow, euen with the cup of destruction, and desolation, wi...
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Thou shalt euen drinke it, and wring it out to the dregges, and thou shalt breake the sheards thereo...
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Therefore thus saith the Lord God (Elohim), Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy...
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The Lord sayd moreouer vnto me, Sonne of man, wilt thou iudge Aholah and Aholibah? and wilt thou dec...
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For they haue played the whores, and blood is in their hands, and with their idoles haue they commit...
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Moreouer, thus haue they done vnto me: they haue defiled my Sanctuarie in the same day, and haue pro...
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For when they had slaine their children to their idoles, they came the same day into my Sanctuarie t...
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And howe much more is it that they sent for men to come from farre vnto whom a messenger was sent, a...
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And satest vpon a costly bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense a...
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And a voyce of a multitude being at ease, was with her: and with the men to make the company great w...
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Then I sayd vnto her, that was olde in adulteries, Now shall she and her fornications come to an end...
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And they went in vnto her as they goe to a common harlot: so went they to Aholah and Aholibah the wi...
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And ye righteous men they shall iudge them, after the maner of harlots, and after the maner of murth...
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Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God (Elohim), I will bring a multitude vpon them, and will giue them v...
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And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and cut them with their swordes: they shall slay the...
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Thus will I cause wickednesse to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to doe afte...
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And they shall laye your wickednesse vpon you, and ye shall beare the sinnes of your idoles, and ye...
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