b[See ver. 15 above]
p[See ver. 1 above]
s[See ver. 1 above]
x[See ver. 1 above]
ak[See ver. 13 above]
av[See ver. 15 above]
bc[See ver. 15 above]
bi[See ver. 33 above]
bz[See ver. 40 above]
db[See ver. 53 above]
dd[See ver. 53 above]

Exodus 34:16

16and you take of atheir daughters for your sons, and their daughters bwhore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

Leviticus 17:7

7So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they cwhore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 20:5-6

5then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in dwhoring after Molech.

6“If ea person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, fI will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Numbers 15:39

39And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, gnot to follow
Hebrew  to spy out
after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined ito whore after.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

1 jIf
Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
lWould not that land be greatly polluted?
mYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?

declares the Lord.
2Lift up your eyes to nthe bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
oBy the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
pYou have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.

Jeremiah 3:6-9

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

6The Lord said to me in the days of qKing Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, rhow she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there splayed the whore? 7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous tsister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, uI had sent her away with va decree of divorce. wYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went xand played the whore. 9Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with ystone and tree.

Ezekiel 16:15-63

15 z“But you trusted in your beauty aaand played the whore
Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
because of your renown acand lavished your whorings
Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
on any passerby; your beauty
Hebrew it
became his.
16You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain
17You also took agyour beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ahmade for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, aiand set my oil and my incense before them. 19 ajAlso my bread that I gave you— akI fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ala pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 amAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and anthese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember aothe days of your youth, apwhen you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

23“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), 24you built yourself aqa vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25At the head of every street aryou built your lofty place and made asyour beauty an abomination, atoffering yourself
Hebrew spreading your legs
to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
26 avYou also played the whore awwith the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, axmultiplying your whoring, ayto provoke me to anger. 27Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you azand diminished your allotted portion baand delivered you to the greed of your enemies, bbthe daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 bcYou played the whore also bdwith the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land beof Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30How sick is your heart,
Revocalization yields  How I am filled with anger against you
declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
31building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, bgbecause you scorned payment. 32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33Men give gifts to all prostitutes, bhbut you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and biyou gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord: 36Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, bjand because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37therefore, behold, bkI will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and blall those you hated. bmI will gather them against you from every side bnand will uncover your nakedness to them, that bothey may see all your nakedness. 38 bpAnd I will judge you bqas women who commit adultery and brshed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your bsvaulted chamber and break down btyour lofty places. buThey shall strip you of your clothes and take bvyour beautiful jewels and leave you bwnaked and bare. 40 bxThey shall bring up a crowd against you, byand they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 bzAnd they shall caburn your houses and cbexecute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. ccI will make you stop playing the whore, and cdyou shall also give payment no more. 42 ceSo will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. 43Because you have not remembered cfthe days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, cgI have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not chcommitted lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

44Behold, everyone ciwho uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ 45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of cjyour sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. ckYour mother was a Hittite and clyour father an Amorite. 46And cmyour elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and cnyour younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. 47 coNot only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time cpyou were more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 cqAs I live, declares the Lord God, your sister crSodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, csexcess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50They were haughty and ctdid an abomination before me. So cuI removed them, when I saw it. 51 cvSamaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and cwhave made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. 52 cxBear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

53 cy“I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, 54that you may bear your disgrace czand be ashamed of all that you have done, dabecoming a consolation to them. 55As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, dband Samaria and her daughters shall return dcto their former state, ddand you and your daughters shall return deto your former state. 56Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth dfin the day of your pride, 57before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become dgan object of reproach for the daughters of Syria
Some manuscripts (compare Syriac)  of Edom
and all those around her, and for dithe daughters of the Philistines, djthose all around who despise you.
58 dkYou bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.

The Lord’s Everlasting Covenant

59For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you dlwho have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 60yet dmI will remember my covenant with you dnin the days of your youth, doand I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 dpThen you will remember your ways dqand be ashamed when you take dryour sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you dsas daughters, but not on account of
Or  not apart from
the covenant with you.
62I will establish my covenant with you, duand you shall know that I am the Lord, 63that you may remember and be confounded, and dvnever open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”

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