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Ezekiel 23 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:1 - The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:2 - "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:3 - they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:4 - Oho'lah was the name of the elder and Ohol'ibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oho'lah is Sama'ria, and Ohol'ibah is Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5 - "Oho'lah played the harlot while she was mine; and she doted on her lovers the Assyrians,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - warriors clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - She bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of every one on whom she doted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - She did not give up her harlotry which she had practiced since her days in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:9 - Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10 - These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - "Her sister Ohol'ibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt than she in her doting and in her harlotry, which was worse than that of her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:13 - And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - But she carried her harlotry further; she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chalde'ans portrayed in vermilion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, a picture of Babylonians whose native land was Chalde'a.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:16 - When she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them in Chalde'a.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:20 - and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21 - Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts."

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:22 - Therefore, O Ohol'ibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chalde'ans, Pekod and Sho'a and Ko'a, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and warriors, all of them riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:24 - And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples; they shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet, and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25 - And I will direct my indignation against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:26 - They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your fine jewels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to the Egyptians or remember them any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:28 - For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your harlotry

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - have brought this upon you, because you played the harlot with the nations, and polluted yourself with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31 - You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - Thus says the Lord GOD: "You shall drink your sister's cup which is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, is the cup of your sister Sama'ria;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:34 - you shall drink it and drain it out, and pluck out your hair, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and harlotry."

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:36 - The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oho'lah and Ohol'ibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is upon their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery; and they have even offered up to them for food the sons whom they had borne to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:38 - Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And lo, this is what they did in my house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:40 - They even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and lo, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:41 - you sat upon a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42 - The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:43 - "Then I said, Do not men now commit adultery when they practice harlotry with her?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:44 - For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oho'lah and to Ohol'ibah to commit lewdness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45 - But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is upon their hands."

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:46

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:46 - For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a host against them, and make them an object of terror and a spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:47 - And the host shall stone them and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48 - Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - And your lewdness shall be requited upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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