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Proverbs - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
- Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
- Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
- that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
- For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
- I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
- passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
- in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
- Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
- She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
- Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
- So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
- "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
- Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
- I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
- I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
- For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
- He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
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