Parallel Verses
Amplified
For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
New American Standard Bible
She
King James Version
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Holman Bible
and lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
International Standard Version
She lusted after her paramours, whose genitals are like those of donkeys, and whose emissions are like those of horses.
A Conservative Version
And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
American Standard Version
And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Bible in Basic English
And 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.
Darby Translation
and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses.
Julia Smith Translation
And she will desire after their paramours, whom the flesh of asses their flesh, and the flowing of horses their flowing.
King James 2000
For she doted upon her paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And she lusted after her male lovers whose genitalia [were the] genitalia of male donkeys and [their] seminal emission [was the] seminal emission of horses.
Modern King James verseion
And she lusted on her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
She burnt in lust upon them, whose flesh was like the flesh of Asses, and their seed like the seed of horses.
NET Bible
She lusted after their genitals -- as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.
New Heart English Bible
She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
The Emphasized Bible
So she lusted after their courtiers,- Whose flesh was the flesh of asses, and Whose issue was the issue of horses.
Webster
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
World English Bible
She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Youngs Literal Translation
And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh is the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses -- their issue.
Interlinear
Basar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 23:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oholah And Oholibah As Symbols Of God's Corrupt People
19 Yet she multiplied her depravities, remembering the days of her youth, when she was actively immoral in the land of Egypt. 20 For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus you longed for the lewdness and vulgarity of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom on account of the breasts of your youth.
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:26
You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 17:15
But Zedekiah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar by sending his ambassadors to Egypt so that they might give him horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Can he indeed break the covenant [with Babylon] and [still] escape?
Jeremiah 5:8
“They were like well-fed, lusty stallions,
Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
Ezekiel 16:20
“Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?