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Would someone translate Ezekiel 23:20 into a more common English?

Ezekiel 23:20

New International Version (NIV)

20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

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  • 7 years ago
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    Isn't the Bible uplifting? I have heard that some school libraries ban it due to the pornographic content.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Well, Italy has a boot it could take off....the Mediterranean is having a baby into the Red Sea. Florida a leg of a key K.

    A common folk of a countryside can become rather licentious and br4azenous with that. A country that interbreeds the pack mule and the sleeping burro-crazy will have to take the bray of courses.

    Esther is perfumed of the same social cataclysm; she the queen who refuses to strip-dance for the kings friends...and her race becomes an overwhelming issue...Hang 'em High they said...and they were hung.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    If you were to read all of Ezekiel 23 you'd discover it's the story of two sisters: Oholah and Oholibah. Verse 4 tells us whom they represent: Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

    Both sisters prostituted themselves with the Assyrians, who were a pagan people. So God is saying both Samaria and Jerusalem left Him to worship the false gods of their neighbors. Prostitution and adultery are often used to represent the worshiping of false gods because there was a high degree of sexual content in pagan worship ceremonies. Worse than that these ceremonies also has a child sacrifice component for which Samaria and Jerusalem would also be judged. Verse 37b says: They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.

  • 7 years ago

    (Ezekiel 23:20) . . .And she kept lusting in the style of concubines belonging to those whose fleshly member is as the fleshly member of male asses and whose genital organ is as the genital organ of male horses.

    It's about spiritual prostitution. God's people were supposed to be faithful to him only but they often turned to pagan nations. Not in a casual way, this is why God inspired Ezekiel to write in this way. Their disloyalty to God is being likened to bestial passion. This was how far they'd gone.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Size matters

  • NDMA
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    What word are you having difficultly with?

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