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Proverbs 7
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Warning Against the Adulteress...
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My son, guard my words, And treasure up my commands with you.
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Guard my commands and live, And my Torah as the apple of your eye.
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Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Say to wisdom, 'You are my sister,' And call understanding a close friend,
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To guard you against the strange woman, Against the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,
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And I saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man lacking heart,
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Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house
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In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night.
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And look, a woman met him, Dressed like a whore, With a hidden heart.
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She was boisterous and stubborn, Her feet did not stay at her own house.
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Now in the street, Now in the square, And at every corner she lurks.
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And she took hold of him and kissed him; She hardened her face and said to him:
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'Peace offerings are with me; Today I have paid my vows.
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'Therefore I came out to meet you, To earnestly seek your face, and I found you.
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'I have spread my bed with coverings, Coloured linens of Mitsrayim.
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'I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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'Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with love.
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'For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey;
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`He took a bag of silver with him; He comes home on the day of the new moon.`
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With her many words she leads him astray, With her smooth lips she seduces him.
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He goes after her immediately, Like an ox he goes to the slaughter, And as in chains, a fool to the punishment,
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Till an arrow strikes through his liver; Like a bird rushing into a snare, And did not know it would take his life.
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And now, listen to me, you children; Pay attention to the words of my mouth:
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Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not go astray in her paths.
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For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, And numerous all her slain ones.
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Her house is the way to the grave, Going down to the rooms of death.
Proverbs 7
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Proverbs 7
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