OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 16:17

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You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.

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Verse 17. My gold, for the temple, or thy most precious ornaments, which were sacrificed to gratify thy lubricity, ( Calmet.) or to form the golden calf, and so forth Exodus 32. Bible.—Obscene representations were also used in the worship of Osiris. Herod. ii. 48.

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