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

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2“Son of man, two women were daughters of one mother,

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Ezekiel 16:44, Ezekiel 16:46, Jeremiah 3:7, Jeremiah 3:10, Ezekiel 16:44

3and they fornicated in Egypt; they committed fornication in their youth. In that place, their breasts were conquered; the breasts of their adolescence were subdued.

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Leviticus 17:7, Leviticus 17:7, Joshua 24:14, Ezekiel 16:22, Joshua 24:14

4Now their names were Oholah, the elder, and Oholibah, her younger sister. And I held them, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names: Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

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Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 16:8, 1 Kings 12:26, 1 Kings 12:33, Psalms 76:2

5And then, Oholah committed fornication against me, and she acted madly with her lovers, with the Assyrians who approached her,

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2 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 17:3, Hosea 5:13, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 15:19

6who were clothed with hyacinth: rulers and magistrates, passionate youths and all of the horsemen, mounted on horses.

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Ezekiel 23:23, Ezekiel 23:23

7And she distributed her fornications to those chosen men, all of them sons of the Assyrians. And she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all those whom she madly desired.

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Hosea 6:10, Hosea 5:3, Hosea 6:10, Hosea 5:3, Ezekiel 20:7

8Moreover, she also did not abandon her fornications, which she had done in Egypt. For they also slept with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and they poured out their fornication upon her.

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Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3, Exodus 32:4, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3

9Because of this, I have delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assur, whom she has lustfully desired.

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Hosea 11:5, 2 Kings 17:23, 2 Kings 15:29, Hosea 11:5, 2 Kings 17:23

10They uncovered her shame; they took away her sons and daughters; and they slew her with the sword. And they became infamous women. And they carried out judgments in her.

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Hosea 2:10, Ezekiel 23:29, Hosea 2:10, Ezekiel 23:29, Jeremiah 22:8

11And when her sister, Oholibah, had seen this, she was even more mad with lust than the other. And her fornication was beyond the fornication of her sister.

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Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Ezekiel 16:47

12She shamelessly offered herself to the sons of the Assyrians, to the rulers and magistrates who brought themselves to her clothed with colorful garments, to the horsemen who were carried by horses, and to the youths, all of them exceptional in appearance.

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2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:15, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:15, Ezekiel 23:5

13And I saw that she had been defiled, and that they both took the same path.

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Ezekiel 23:31, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 12:2, 2 Kings 17:18, 2 Kings 17:19

14And she increased her fornications. And when she had seen men depicted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans, expressed in colors,

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Ezekiel 8:10, Ezekiel 8:10, Jeremiah 22:14, Jeremiah 22:14, Jeremiah 50:2

15with belts wrapped around the waist, and with dyed headdresses on their heads, having seen the appearance of all the rulers, the likenesses of the sons of Babylon and of the land of the Chaldeans in which they were born,

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1 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 14:25, Judges 8:18, Isaiah 22:21, 1 Samuel 18:4

16she became mad for them with the desire of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

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Ezekiel 16:29, Ezekiel 16:29, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 5:28, Job 31:1

17And when the sons of Babylon had gone to her, to the bed of breasts, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was gorged by them.

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Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:28, Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:28, 2 Samuel 13:15

18Also, her fornications were uncovered, and her shame was revealed. And my soul withdrew from her, as my soul had withdrawn from her sister.

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Psalms 78:59, Psalms 106:40, Jeremiah 12:8, Psalms 78:59, Psalms 106:40

19For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she fornicated in the land of Egypt.

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Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 20:7, Amos 4:4

20And she was mad with lust after lying with them, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose flow is like the flow of horses.

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Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 16:26, Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 16:26, Ezekiel 16:20

21And you have revisited the crimes of your youth, when your breasts were conquered in Egypt, and the breasts of your adolescence were subdued.

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22Because of this, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will raise up against you all of your lovers, with whom your soul has been gorged. And I will gather them together against you all around:

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Ezekiel 16:37, Ezekiel 16:37, Revelation 17:16, Revelation 17:16, Isaiah 39:3

23the sons of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, the sovereigns and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, youths of exceptional form, all the rulers and magistrates, the leaders among leaders, and the renowned riders of horses.

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Jeremiah 50:21, Jeremiah 50:21, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 20:14, 2 Kings 20:17

24And they will overwhelm you, well-equipped with chariot and wheel, a multitude of peoples. They will be armed against you on every side with armor and shield and helmet. And I will give judgment to their eyes, and they will judge you with their judgments.

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Ezekiel 16:38, Ezekiel 23:45, Nahum 2:3, Nahum 2:4, 2 Samuel 24:14

25And against you, I will set my zeal, which they will execute upon you with fury. They will cut off your nose and your ears. And what remains will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and your daughters, and your youngest will be devoured by fire.

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Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 16:38, Ezekiel 16:42, Ezekiel 15:6

26And they will strip you of your vestments, and take away the articles of your glory.

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Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 16:39, Jeremiah 13:22, Jeremiah 13:22, Ezekiel 23:29

27And I will cause your wickedness to cease from you, and your fornication to cease from the land of Egypt. Neither shall you lift up your eyes toward them, and you shall no longer remember Egypt.

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Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3

28For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you have hated, into the hands by which your soul has been gorged.

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Ezekiel 23:17, Jeremiah 34:20, Ezekiel 16:37, Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:17

29And they will act toward you with hatred, and they will take away all your labors, and they will send you away naked and filled with disgrace. And the shame of your fornication will be revealed: your crimes and your fornications.

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Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 23:45, Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:25, Ezekiel 23:26

30They have done these things to you, because you have fornicated after the Gentiles, among whom you were defiled by their idols.

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Ezekiel 6:9, Ezekiel 6:9, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Psalms 106:35

31You have walked in the way of your sister, and so I will give her chalice into your hand.

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2 Kings 21:13, Jeremiah 7:14, Jeremiah 7:15, 2 Kings 21:13, Jeremiah 7:14

32Thus says the Lord God: You will drink the chalice of your sister, deep and wide. You will be held in derision and in ridicule, to a very great extent.

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Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 51:17, Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 51:17, Ezekiel 22:4

33You will be filled with inebriation and sorrow, by the chalice of grief and sadness, by the chalice of your sister Samaria.

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Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 51:17, Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22

34And you will drink it, and you will empty it, even to the dregs. And you will consume even its particles. And you will wound your own breasts. For I have spoken, says the Lord God.

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Psalms 75:8, Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:17, Ezekiel 23:8

35Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Since you have forgotten me, and you have cast me behind your body, so also will you bear your wickedness and your fornications.”

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1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 14:9, Ezekiel 22:12, Jeremiah 3:21, Isaiah 17:10

36And the Lord spoke to me, saying: “Son of man, should you not judge Oholah and Oholibah, and announce to them their crimes?

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Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 20:4, Ezekiel 16:2, Isaiah 58:1

37For they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands, and they have fornicated with their idols. Moreover, they have offered even their children, whom they bore for me, to them to be devoured.

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Ezekiel 16:36, Ezekiel 16:36, Jeremiah 7:31, Ezekiel 20:26, Jeremiah 32:35

38But they have done even this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and they have profaned my Sabbaths.

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Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:13, 2 Kings 21:7, Ezekiel 20:24, Ezekiel 7:20

39And when they immolated their children to their idols, they also entered my sanctuary on the same day, so that they defiled it. They have done these things, even in the midst of my house.

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2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 21:4, Jeremiah 23:11, Ezekiel 44:7, Jeremiah 23:11

40They sent for men who were coming from far away, to whom they had sent a messenger. And so, behold, they arrived, those for whom you washed yourself, and smeared cosmetics around your eyes, and were adorned with feminine ornaments.

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2 Kings 9:30, Jeremiah 4:30, 2 Kings 9:30, Jeremiah 4:30, Ezekiel 16:13

41You sat upon a very beautiful bed, and a table was adorned before you, on which you placed my incense and my ointment.

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Esther 1:6, Esther 1:6, Amos 6:4, Jeremiah 44:17, Ezekiel 44:16

42And the voice of a multitude was exulting within her. And concerning certain men, who were being led out of a multitude of persons, and who were arriving from the desert, they placed bracelets on their hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.

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Ezekiel 16:11, Ezekiel 16:12, Ezekiel 16:11, Ezekiel 16:12, Exodus 32:18

43And I said about her, as she was being worn away by her adulteries, ‘Even now, she continues in her fornication!’

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Jeremiah 13:23, Daniel 9:16, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezra 9:7, Psalms 106:6

44And they entered to her, as if to a kept woman. So did they enter to Oholah and Oholibah, nefarious women.

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Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:9, Ezekiel 23:13, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:9

45But there are just men; these shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of those who shed blood. For they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

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Leviticus 20:10, Ezekiel 23:36, Ezekiel 23:39, Hosea 6:5, Ezekiel 16:38

46For thus says the Lord God: Lead upon them a multitude, and hand them over to tumult and to pillaging.

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Ezekiel 16:40, Ezekiel 16:40, Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 24:9, Jeremiah 15:4

47And may they be stoned with the stones of the peoples, and may they be pierced with their own swords. They will put to death their sons and daughters, and they will burn their houses with fire.

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Ezekiel 16:40, Ezekiel 16:41, Jeremiah 39:8, Ezekiel 24:21, Ezekiel 16:40

48And I will take away wickedness from the land. And all women shall learn not to act according to their wickedness.

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2 Peter 2:6, Ezekiel 23:27, Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 6:6, 2 Peter 2:6

49And they will set your own crimes upon you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. And you shall know that I am the Lord God.”

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Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 9:10, Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 9:10, Isaiah 59:18