Ezekiel 23:3
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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.
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- Ezekiel 23:3 Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21
Ezekiel 23:3
New International Version
3 They became prostitutes in Egypt,(A) engaging in prostitution(B) from their youth.(C) In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.(D)
Ezekiel 23:8
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8 She did not give up her whoring (A)that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.
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Ezekiel 23:8
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8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt,(A) when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.(B)
Ezekiel 23:11-12
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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. 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, (C)all of them desirable young men.
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- Ezekiel 23:11 Hebrew than she
Ezekiel 23:11-12
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11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this,(A) yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.(B) 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.(C)
Leviticus 17:7
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7 So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they (A)whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
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Leviticus 17:7
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7 They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols[a](A) to whom they prostitute themselves.(B) This is to be a lasting ordinance(C) for them and for the generations to come.’(D)
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- Leviticus 17:7 Or the demons
Isaiah 1:21
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The Unfaithful City
21 How the faithful city
(A)has become a whore,[a]
(B)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
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- Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste
Isaiah 1:21
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Isaiah 57:8
English Standard Version
8 Behind the door and the doorpost
you have set up your memorial;
for, deserting me, (A)you have uncovered your bed,
you have gone up to it,
(B)you have made it wide;
and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,
you have loved their bed,
you have looked on nakedness.[a]
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- Isaiah 57:8 Or on a monument (see 56:5); Hebrew on a hand
Isaiah 57:8
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Jeremiah 2:20
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20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down (D)like a whore.
Jeremiah 3:2
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2 Lift up your eyes to (A)the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
(B)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
(C)You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
Jeremiah 3:2
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Jeremiah 3:6
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Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6 The Lord said to me in the days of (A)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (B)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (C)played the whore?
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Jeremiah 3:6
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Unfaithful Israel
6 During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.
Jeremiah 3:20
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20 (A)Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,
so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.’”
Jeremiah 3:20
New International Version
20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,
so you, Israel, have been unfaithful(A) to me,”
declares the Lord.
Hosea 1:2
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Hosea's Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, (A)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have (B)children of whoredom, for (C)the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
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Hosea 1:2
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Hosea’s Wife and Children
2 When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous(A) woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness(B) to the Lord.”
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