24 you built yourself (A)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street (B)you built your lofty place and made (C)your beauty an abomination, (D)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 26 (E)You also played the whore (F)with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, (G)multiplying your whoring, (H)to provoke me to anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs

24 you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine(A) in every public square.(B) 25 At every street corner(C) you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.(D) 26 You engaged in prostitution(E) with the Egyptians,(F) your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger(G) with your increasing promiscuity.(H)

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