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Ezekiel 16:12-20 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

12. I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

13. Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

14. Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you," declares the Lord God.

15. "But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

16. You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen.

17. You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

18. Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

19. Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened," declares the Lord God.

20. "Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?

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