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I passed by you, and saw you flailing about in your blood. As you lay in your blood, I said to you, ‘Live! and grow up[a] like a plant of the field.’ You grew up and became tall and arrived at full womanhood;[b] your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you, and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:7 Gk Syr: Heb Live! I made you a myriad
  2. Ezekiel 16:7 Cn: Heb ornament of ornaments

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