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

10.06.2025 00:08

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

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.

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׃

There was this one weird Bollywood movie that was released in the 2000s. Amitabh Bachchan was starring with another actress and the story was about how the old guy (Amitabh Bachchan) fell in love with the young woman. What is the name of this movie?

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.

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

Here's the translation into English:

Is It Finally a Buyer’s Market in Housing? - A Wealth of Common Sense

Here's the original Hebrew:

Here is that literally word for word: