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Proverbs 7

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My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching 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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Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

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that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

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I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

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passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

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in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

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Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

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She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

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Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

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So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

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“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

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Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

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I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

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For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

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He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

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With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

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He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

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Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

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Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

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Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

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for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

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Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.