They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
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They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
They went in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. In this way they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, immoral women.
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They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
And they went in unto her, as they go in unto an harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
And they went in vnto her as they goe to a common harlot: so went they to Aholah and Aholibah the wicked women.
And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.
And they come in unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah -- the wicked women.
And they come in to her, || As the coming in to a whorish woman, || So they have come in to Aholah, || And to Aholibah—the wicked women.
They went in to her and slept with her as men go in to be with a prostitute. In this way they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, who were immoral women.
They went in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. In this way they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, immoral women.
And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a whorish woman: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah the lewd women.
They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that playeth the harlot: so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.
So they had sex with her like a prostitute. They had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, those immoral women.
And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.
For every one went in unto her, as men go in unto a harlot; so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אָֽהֳלָה֙ Aholah H170 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אָֽהֳלָה֙ Aholah H170 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיָּב֣וֹא אֵלֶ֔יהָ כְּב֖וֹא אֶל אִשָּׁ֣ה זוֹנָ֑ה כֵּ֣ן בָּ֗אוּ אֶֽל אָֽהֳלָה֙ וְאֶל אָ֣הֳלִיבָ֔ה אִשֹּׁ֖ת הַזִּמָּֽה
They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἰςπορεύομαι πρός αὐτός ὅς τρόπος εἰςπορεύομαι πρός γυνή πόρνη οὕτως εἰςπορεύομαι πρός οολα καί πρός οολιβα ὁ ποιέω ἀνομία
And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וְעָלוּ לְוָתָהּ כְּמָא דְעָלִין לְוַת אִיתְּתָא פּוּנְדְקִיתָא כֵּן עָלוּ לְאָהֳלָה וּלְאָהֳלִיבָה מְזִינְתָא דְעֵיצַתְהוֹן חֶטְאִין:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 14 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼOhŏlâh (“Aholah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 23:44 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.