15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
  2. Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
  3. Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it

16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[a]

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  1. Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain

28 (A)You played the whore also (B)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.

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29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land (A)of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

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32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

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33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, (A)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

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

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(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.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:3 Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21

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

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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.

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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.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:11 Hebrew than she

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,

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

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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.

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