◄ Ezekiel 23:21 ►
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Good News Translation
Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)

New Revised Standard Version
Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your bosom and caressed your young breasts.

Contemporary English Version
And she longed for the days when she was a young prostitute, when men enjoyed caressing her body.

New American Bible
You reverted to the depravity of your youth, when Egyptians fondled your breasts, caressing your young nipples.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.

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Context
The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah
…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. 21And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.
Cross References
Jeremiah 3:9
And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

Ezekiel 23:3
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 23:22
Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about.

Ezekiel 23:20
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