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

12.06.2025 04:12

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

Here is that literally word for word:

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.

Here's the original Hebrew:

You hold the door open for a lady and she stops in her tracks and screams at you, ‘Don’t hold the door for me! I’ll get it myself!’ What are your feelings or immediate reaction?

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.

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

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

I live in Massachusetts. Are there any resources here for people that are being harassed by voice to skull, etc.?

Here's the translation into English:

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.