^2 (A)“Son of man, there were ^(B)two women, the daughters of one mother.

^3 (A)They played the whore in Egypt; ^(B)they played the whore ^(C)in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms^[a] handled.

⁵ “Oholah played the whore ^(A)while she was mine, and ^(B)she lusted after her lovers ^(C)the Assyrians, warriors

⁶ clothed in purple, ^(A)governors and commanders, ^(B)all of them desirable young men, ^(C)horsemen riding on horses.

⁷ She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

^11 (A)“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became ^(B)more corrupt than her sister^[a] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.

¹⁴ But she carried her whoring further. She saw men ^(A)portrayed on the wall, the ^(B)images of ^(C)the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,

¹⁶ When she saw them, she lusted after them and ^(A)sent messengers to them ^(B)in Chaldea.

¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her ^(A)into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, ^(B)she turned from them in disgust.