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Ezekiel 23:2-9 Common English Bible (CEB)

2. Human one, there were two women, daughters of one woman.

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

4. The older sister was named Oholah, and the younger sister was named Oholibah. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Now Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

5. But Oholah became unfaithful to me and lusted after her lovers the Assyrians:

6. warriors dressed in fine blue cloth, governors and officers, charioteers and horsemen, all of them the most handsome of men.

7. She sought them out to seduce them, all of them men of the highest rank of Assyria. She defiled herself by everyone she lusted after and also by all their idols.

8. But she never gave up her promiscuities with the Egyptians, who had slept with her in her girlhood and fondled her nubile breasts, and who continued to seduce her.

9. Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

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