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

14.06.2025 00:01

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

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.

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.

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

Why do Puerto Ricans come to this country flying their flags over in the United States all over their cars? They're so proud of their country. Why are they here?

Here's the translation into English:

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

Here is that literally word for word:

My waist finally looks like how it did before I had kids but I didn’t lose weight. Why am I still 15 lbs from my starting weight?

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.

Here's the original Hebrew: