Ezekiel 16:38 “And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery…”

Ezekiel 16:38

And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

World English Bible

I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

American Standard Version

And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I wil iudge thee after ye maner of them that are harlots, and of them that shead blood, and I wil giue thee the blood of wrath and ielousie.

Darby Translation

And I will judge thee with the judgments of women that commit adultery and shed blood; and I will give thee up to the blood of fury and jealousy;

Young's Literal Translation

And I have judged thee — judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.

Bible in Basic English

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

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Cross references

“as women”

Leviticus 20:10 Ezekiel 16:40 Ezekiel 23:45–47 Genesis 38:11 Genesis 38:24 Deuteronomy 22:22–24

Leviticus 20:10 · BSB

If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

Ezekiel 16:40 · BSB

They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Ezekiel 23:45–47 · BSB

But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

Genesis 38:11 · BSB

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Genesis 38:24 · BSB

About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

Deuteronomy 22:22–24 · BSB

If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

“shed”

Genesis 9:6 Jeremiah 18:21 Zephaniah 1:17 Ezekiel 16:36 Exodus 21:12 Numbers 35:31

Genesis 9:6 · BSB

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Jeremiah 18:21 · BSB

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…

Zephaniah 1:17 · BSB

I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Ezekiel 16:36 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you g…

Exodus 21:12 · BSB

Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:31 · BSB

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

Also

Ezekiel 23:25

Ezekiel 23:25 · BSB

And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

37therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.

39Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

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