Ezekiel 16:26

16:26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, ¹  multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

Ezekiel 20:48

20:48 And everyone ²  will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

Ezekiel 23:20

23:20 She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, ³  and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

Ezekiel 40:43

40:43 There were hooks ⁴  three inches ⁵  long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

[16:26]  ¹ tn Heb “your neighbors, large of flesh.” The word “flesh” is used here of the genitals. It may simply refer to the size of their genitals in general, or, as the translation suggests, depicts them as sexually aroused.

[20:48]  ² tn Heb “all flesh.”

[23:20]  ³ tn Heb “She lusted after their concubines (?) whose flesh was the flesh of donkeys.” The phrase “their concubines” is extremely problematic here. The pronoun is masculine plural, suggesting that the Egyptian men are in view, but how concubines would fit into the picture envisioned here is not clear. Some suggest that Ezekiel uses the term in an idiomatic sense of “paramour,” but this still fails to explain how the pronoun relates to the noun. It is more likely that the term refers here to the Egyptians’ genitals. The relative pronoun that follows introduces a more specific description of their genitals.

[40:43]  ⁴ tc This reading is supported by the Aramaic Targum. The LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “shelves” or some type of projection.

[40:43]  ⁵ tn Heb “one handbreadth” (7.5 cm).