Ezekiel 23:3
New International Version
They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.

New Living Translation
They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed men to fondle their breasts.

English Standard Version
They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.

Berean Standard Bible
and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

King James Bible
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

New King James Version
They committed harlotry in Egypt, They committed harlotry in their youth; Their breasts were there embraced, Their virgin bosom was there pressed.

New American Standard Bible
and they prostituted themselves in Egypt. They prostituted themselves in their youth; there their breasts were squeezed and there their virgin breasts were handled.

NASB 1995
and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.

NASB 1977
and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosom was handled.

Legacy Standard Bible
and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosom was handled.

Amplified Bible
and they prostituted themselves in Egypt. From their youth they were grossly immoral; in that place their breasts were embraced and their virgin bosom was grasped.

Christian Standard Bible
who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed.

American Standard Version
and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they committed fornication in Egypt in their youth. There they bruised their breasts and there they lost virginity

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.

Contemporary English Version
While they were young and living in Egypt, they became prostitutes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were bruised.

English Revised Version
and they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They became prostitutes in Egypt when they were young. There men fondled and caressed their breasts.

Good News Translation
When they were young, living in Egypt, they lost their virginity and became prostitutes.

International Standard Version
They committed sexual immorality in Egypt. They did this in their youth. There, their breasts were caressed. Their virgin breasts were fondled.

JPS Tanakh 1917
and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised.

Literal Standard Version
And they go whoring in Egypt, | They have gone whoring in their youth, | There they have bruised their breasts, | And there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity.

Majority Standard Bible
and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

New American Bible
Even as young girls, they were prostitutes, serving as prostitutes in Egypt. There the Egyptians fondled their breasts and caressed their virgin nipples.

NET Bible
They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers fondled their virgin nipples there.

New Revised Standard Version
they played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; their breasts were caressed there, and their virgin bosoms were fondled.

New Heart English Bible
and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they committed lewd deeds in Egypt; they committed lewd deeds in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they were first corrupted.

World English Bible
They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

Young's Literal Translation
And they go a-whoring in Egypt, In their youth they have gone a-whoring, There they have bruised their breasts, And there they have dealt with the loves of their virginity.

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Context
The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah
2“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother, 3and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed. 4The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.…

Cross References
Revelation 11:8
Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city--figuratively called Sodom and Egypt--where their Lord was also crucified.

Leviticus 17:7
They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.'

Jeremiah 3:9
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Ezekiel 23:4
The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 23:8
She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

Ezekiel 23:21
So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

Ezekiel 23:43
Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: 'Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!'


Treasury of Scripture

And they committed prostitutions in Egypt; they committed prostitutions in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

in Egypt

Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

Deuteronomy 29:16
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

in their

Ezekiel 23:8,19,21
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her…

Ezekiel 16:22
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Hosea 2:15
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Acting Behaviour Bosom Breasts Bruised Caressed Committed Corrupted Crushed Deeds Egypt Engaging First Fondled Handled Harlot Harlotries Lewd Played Pressed Prostitute Prostitutes Prostitution Teats Virgin Virginity Whoredom Whoredoms Women Young Youth
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Acting Behaviour Bosom Breasts Bruised Caressed Committed Corrupted Crushed Deeds Egypt Engaging First Fondled Handled Harlot Harlotries Lewd Played Pressed Prostitute Prostitutes Prostitution Teats Virgin Virginity Whoredom Whoredoms Women Young Youth
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














(3) In Egypt.--The idolatries of Israel in Egypt have already been spoken of in the Note to Ezekiel 20:8. (See also Ezekiel 23:19 below.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and they played
וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה (wat·tiz·ne·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

in Egypt,
בְמִצְרַ֔יִם (ḇə·miṣ·ra·yim)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

prostituting themselves
זָנ֑וּ (zā·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

from their youth.
בִּנְעוּרֵיהֶ֖ן (bin·‘ū·rê·hen)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 5271: Youth, the state, the persons

Their breasts
שְׁדֵיהֶ֔ן (šə·ḏê·hen)
Noun - mdc | third person feminine plural
Strong's 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal

were fondled
מֹעֲכ֣וּ (mō·‘ă·ḵū)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4600: To press, to pierce, emasculate, handle

there,
שָׁ֚מָּה (māh)
Adverb | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

and their virgin
בְּתוּלֵיהֶֽן׃ (bə·ṯū·lê·hen)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 1331: Virginity, the tokens of it

bosoms
דַּדֵּ֖י (dad·dê)
Noun - mdc
Strong's 1717: Breast, teat, nipple

caressed.
עִשּׂ֔וּ (‘iś·śū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make


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