Ezekiel 23:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

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  • Lev 17:7 : 7 And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.
  • Josh 24:14 : 14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
  • Ezek 16:22 : 22 And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 23:8 : 8 And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.
  • Ezek 23:19 : 19 But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 23:21 : 21 And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.
  • Hos 2:15 : 15 And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 29:16 : 16 (For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;

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  • Ezek 23:7-11
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    7And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.

    8And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

    9For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

    10By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

    11And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.

  • Ezek 23:13-22
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    13And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

    14And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

    15With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

    16And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.

    17And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

    18So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

    19But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

    20And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

    21And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.

    22For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;

  • Ezek 23:43-45
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    43Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

    44And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.

    45And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.

  • Ezek 23:26-27
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    26And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.

    27So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.

  • Ezek 23:34-37
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    34And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord.

    35So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.

    36Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done.

    37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Ezek 16:26
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    26And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

  • Ezek 23:4-5
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    4Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

    5And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

  • Ezek 23:2
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    2Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

  • Jer 3:8-9
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    8And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.

    9So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

  • Ezek 23:29-30
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    29And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.

    30They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

  • Ezek 16:22
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    22And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

  • Jer 3:2-3
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    2Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

    3So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
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    10In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

    11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Ezek 16:36
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    36This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

  • Ezek 16:15
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    15But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.

  • Ezek 16:28-30
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    28And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.

    29And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough.

    30How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

  • Ezek 16:17
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    17And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

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    1Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

  • Hos 2:2-3
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    2Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

    3For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

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    18Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

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    13So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.

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    20For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman