Ezekiel 23:2
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "there were once two sisters.

New Revised Standard Version
Mortal, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, listen to this story about two sisters.

New American Bible
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.

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Ezekiel 16:44,46 Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter. . . .

Jeremiah 3:7-10 And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw, . . .

Context
The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.3And 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.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:45
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.

Ezekiel 16:46
And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.

Ezekiel 23:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 23:1
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