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What does 'Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys’ mean (Ezekiel 23:20)?

12.06.2025 01:11

What does 'Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys’ mean (Ezekiel 23:20)?

The full verse is way funnier when translated accurately and in modern English.

וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה עַ֖ל פִּֽלַגְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּשַׂר־חֲמֹורִים֙ בְּשָׂרָ֔ם וְזִרְמַ֥ת סוּסִ֖ים זִרְמָתָֽם׃

She lusted after them like the concubines of men whose male members are like those of a donkey and whose genitals are like those of a horse.

How come Jesus died on Friday and rose on Sunday? That's not 3 days and three nights.

And for she lusted/for/her illicit lovers/whose/the flesh/of donkeys/is like/gushing of fluid [as in, the organ that provides that]/of horses/whose gushing of fluid.

Here's the original Hebrew:

The chapter is a prophetic denunciation of Judah and Samaria, both of which had committed spiritual prostitution, that is, they had gone after false gods and pagan religion with a sort of sexual lustfulness, hence the prophet's words about them being like horny women going after men with huge penises.

Did Leonardo da Vinci paint two Mona Lisas? Where are they?

Here is that literally word for word:

Here's the translation into English: