Ezekiel 23:19
Good News Translation
She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt

Contemporary English Version
Oholibah didn't stop there, but became even more immoral and acted as she had back in Egypt.

New American Bible
But she increased her prostitution, recalling the days of her youth when she had served as a prostitute in the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

multiplied

Ezekiel 23:14 And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,

Ezekiel 16:25,29,51 At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications. . . .

in calling

Ezekiel 23:3,8,21 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. . . .

Ezekiel 16:22 And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.

Ezekiel 20:7 And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Context
The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah
18And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister. 19For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.20And 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 38:24
And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.

Ezekiel 23:8
Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.

Ezekiel 23:18
And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.

Ezekiel 23:20
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.

Ezekiel 23:18
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