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Ezekiel 16:16-17
New King James Version
Ezekiel 16:16-17
New King James Version
16 (A)You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored [a]high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be. 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.
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- Ezekiel 16:16 Places for pagan worship
Ezekiel 16:16-17
New American Standard Bible
Ezekiel 16:16-17
New American Standard Bible
16 You took some of your clothes, made for yourself [a]high places of various colors, and committed prostitution on them, which should not come about nor happen. 17 You also took your beautiful [b](A)jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images so that you might commit prostitution with them.
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- Ezekiel 16:16 I.e., pagan altars
- Ezekiel 16:17 Lit articles of beauty
Ezekiel 16:16-17
Amplified Bible
Ezekiel 16:16-17
Amplified Bible
16 You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place. 17 You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;
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Ezekiel 16:16-17
New International Version
Ezekiel 16:16-17
New International Version
16 You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places,(A) where you carried on your prostitution.(B) You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.[a] 17 You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.(C)
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- Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
Ezekiel 16:16-17
King James Version
Ezekiel 16:16-17
King James Version
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
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