Ezekiel 23:20
New International Version
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

New Living Translation
She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.

English Standard Version
and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.

Berean Standard Bible
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

King James Bible
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

New King James Version
For she lusted for her paramours, Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, And whose issue is like the issue of horses.

New American Standard Bible
She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose discharge is like the discharge of horses.

NASB 1995
“She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

NASB 1977
“And she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Legacy Standard Bible
She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Amplified Bible
For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Christian Standard Bible
and lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

American Standard Version
And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And she copulated with their Servants, whose flesh was like the flesh of donkeys, and their genitals like the genitals of horses

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and thou didst dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their members as the members of horses.

Contemporary English Version
She eagerly wanted to go to bed with Egyptian men, who were famous for their sexual powers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.

English Revised Version
And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses.

Good News Translation
She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions." (

International Standard Version
She lusted after her paramours, whose genitals are like those of donkeys, and whose emissions are like those of horses.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Literal Standard Version
And she lusts on their lovers, | Whose flesh [is] the flesh of donkeys, | And the emission of horses—their emission.

Majority Standard Bible
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

New American Bible
She lusted for the lechers of Egypt, whose members are like those of donkeys, whose thrusts are like those of stallions.

NET Bible
She lusted after their genitals--as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

New Revised Standard Version
and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions.

New Heart English Bible
She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Webster's Bible Translation
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

World English Bible
She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Young's Literal Translation
And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh is the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses -- their issue.

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Context
The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah
19Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt 20and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions. 21So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 16:26
You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.

Ezekiel 17:15
But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?'

Ezekiel 23:16
At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

Ezekiel 23:19
Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt


Treasury of Scripture

For she doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Ezekiel 16:20,26
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, …

Ezekiel 17:15
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

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Ezekiel 23
1. The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah
23. Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers
36. The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both
45. and shows their judgments














(20) Their paramours.--The word is masculine, as indicating the abominable sins copied by the Israelites from the heathen, and asses and horses are introduced to show the intensity of lust. (Comp. Jeremiah 5:8.)

Verse 20. - She doted on her paramours. Commonly the word is used of a concubine (Genesis 22:24; Judges 8:31). Here it is used in scorn of the Egyptian princes whose favor Judah courted, reminding us of Homer's Ἀχαιίδες οὐκετ Ἀχαίοι, as indicating their political weakness. All that need be said of the comparison that follows is that here also Ezekiel follows in the footsteps of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 5:8). What is indicated is that Judah threw herself into the idolatrous ritual of Egypt with an almost orgiastic passion. The harlot nation returned, as it were, to her first love, and renewed the whoredoms of her youth.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and lusted
וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה (wat·ta‘·gə·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5689: To have inordinate affection, lust

after
עַ֖ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

their lovers,
פִּֽלַגְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם (pi·laḡ·šê·hem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6370: A concubine, a paramour

whose
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

genitals
בְּשַׂר־ (bə·śar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

were like those
בְּשָׂרָ֔ם (bə·śā·rām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

of donkeys
חֲמוֹרִים֙ (ḥă·mō·w·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2543: A male ass

and whose emission
וְזִרְמַ֥ת (wə·zir·maṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2231: A gushing of fluid

was like that
זִרְמָתָֽם׃ (zir·mā·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2231: A gushing of fluid

of stallions.
סוּסִ֖ים (sū·sîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5483: A swallow, swift (type of bird)


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