Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Nevertheless, she used her whoredom ever the longer, the more; and remembered the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 She burnt in lust upon them, whose flesh was like the flesh of Asses, and their seed like the seed of horses. 21 Thus thou hast renewed the filthiness of thy youth, when thy lovers bruised thy paps, and marred thy breasts in Egypt.
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:26
Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, which had much flesh: and thus hast thou used thine whoredom to anger me.
Ezekiel 17:15
But he fell from him, and sent his Ambassadors into Egypt that he might have horses and much people. Should that prosper? Should he be kept safe, that doth such things? Or should he escape, that breaketh his covenant?
Jeremiah 5:8
In the desire of uncleanly lust they are become like the stoned horse: every man neigheth at his neighbour's wife.
Ezekiel 16:20
Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou,