Ezekiel 16:24-26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
24 you built yourself a platform and raised up a dais[a] in every public place.(A) 25 (B)At every intersection you built yourself a dais so that you could degrade your beauty by spreading your legs for every passerby, multiplying your prostitutions. 26 You served as a prostitute with the Egyptians, your big-membered neighbors, and multiplied your prostitutions to provoke me.
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- 16:24 A platform…a dais: associated with rituals borrowed from the Canaanites.
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