Aholibah (Jerusalem) Follows Her Sister’s Sin

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Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.

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She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

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I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

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She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Kasdim portrayed with vermilion,

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dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Kasdim, the land of their birth.

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As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Kasdimah.

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The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

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So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

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Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

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She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

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