Ezekiel 23:44 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁴ They have gone in to her as one goes in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, wanton women.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ Yet they went in to her as they go in to a woman who plays the harlot; so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah [Israel and Judah], the lewd women.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ They come as if coming to a prostitute, first to Oholah, and then to Oholibah, those traitorous women.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla and Ooliba, wicked women.

Ezekiel 23:44 Cross References

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.

Ezekiel 23:3

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

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.”

Ezekiel 23:45

But righteous judges shall declare them guilty of adultery and of bloodshed, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.