Ezekiel 23:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ they prostituted themselves in Egypt; they prostituted themselves in their youth; their breasts were caressed there, and their virgin bosoms were fondled.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And they played the harlot in Egypt. There they played the harlot in their youth; there their bosoms were pressed and there their virgin breasts were handled.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

Common English Bible

³ When they were girls in Egypt, they began to prostitute themselves by allowing their young and nubile breasts to be touched and fondled.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Ezekiel 23:3 Cross References

Leviticus 17:7

so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.

Ezekiel 16:22

And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, flailing about in your blood.

Joshua 24:14

“Now, therefore, revere the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt and serve the Lord.

Hosea 2:15

From there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:21

Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your bosom and caressed your young breasts.

Ezekiel 23:19

Yet she increased her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

Ezekiel 23:8

She did not give up her prostitutions that she had practiced since Egypt, for in her youth men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

Ezekiel 20:8

But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; not one of them cast away the detestable things on which their eyes feasted, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29:16

You know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.

Revelation 11:8

and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is prophetically called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

Jeremiah 3:9

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

Ezekiel 23:4

Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 23:43

Then I said, “Ah, she is worn out with adulteries, but they carry on their sexual acts with her.”

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your fame and lavished your prostitutions on any passer-by.

Ezekiel 20:7

And I said to them, “Cast away the detestable things on which your eyes feast, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 23:34

you shall drink it and drain it out and gnaw its sherds and tear out your breasts, for I have spoken, says the Lord God.