1. And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
3. “And they whored in Mitsrayim, they whored in their youth. There their breasts were handled, and there their maiden nipples were squeezed.
4. “And their names were: Oholah the elder and Oholiḇah her sister. And they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Shomeron is Oholah, and Yerushalayim is Oholiḇah.
5. “And Oholah whored while she was Mine. And she lusted for her lovers, the neighbouring Ashshurians,
6. dressed in purple, officers and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
7. “So she gave her whorings on them, all of them choice sons of Ashshur. And with all for whom she lusted, with all their idols, she defiled herself.
8. “And she did not forsake her whorings from Mitsrayim, for in her youth they had lain with her, and they squeezed her maiden nipples, and poured out their whorings on her.
9. “Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Ashshurians, for whom she lusted.
10. “They uncovered her nakedness, they took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.
11. “And her sister Oholiḇah saw this, yet she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her whorings more corrupt than her sister’s whorings.
12. “She lusted for the sons of Ashshur, officers and rulers, the ones near, perfectly dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
13. “And I saw that she was defiled, they both took the same way.
14. “But she increased her whorings, and she looked at men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans portrayed in red,
15. girded with belts around their loins, flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Baḇelians of Chaldea, the land of their birth.
16. “As soon as her eyes saw them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17. “And the Baḇelians came to her, into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whorings. And she was defiled by them, and her being turned from them in disgust.
18. “And she uncovered her whorings and uncovered her nakedness. Then I turned My being from her in disgust, as My being had turned from her sister in disgust.
19. “And she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she whored in the land of Mitsrayim.
20. “And she lusted after her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose emission is like the emission of horses.