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23:3 \u201c\u2018And they played the whore in Egypt, in their youth, they played the whore there. Their breasts were squeezed and there were their virgin teats fondled.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As in chapter 16, Ezekiel takes the conventional metaphor of whoring as an image of idolatry (and also of alliances with foreign powers) and pushes it to a level of sexual explicitness as does no other biblical writer. Nowhere else in the Bible does one find this sort of direct reference to fondling breasts in sexual play, and nowhere else does one encounter an evocation of a concupiscent woman allured by the largeness of the male sexual organ (verse 20). There are passages in this prophecy where the allegorical referent of idolatry virtually disappears as the sexual foreground is flaunted. Ezekiel looks distinctly like a man morbidly obsessed with the female body and with female sexuality, exhibiting a horrified fascination with both. The word in the second verset of this line, <\/span>dad<\/span><\/em>, is represented by some as \u201cnipple,\u201d but on dubious grounds. It is a phonetic cousin of <\/span>shad<\/span><\/em>, the standard word for \u201cbreast.\u201d It occurs only here and in Proverbs 5:19, where it does not seem to mean \u201cnipple\u201d either. In any case, \u201cfondling\u201d (the more general sense of the verb is \u201cknead\u201d) does not work well for nipples, although it is appropriate for breasts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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