Proverbs 2:16
16 So ayou will be delivered from the forbidden ▼▼Hebrew strange
woman,from cthe adulteress ▼
▼Hebrew foreign woman
with eher smooth words,Proverbs 5:3
3For the lips of fa forbidden ▼▼Hebrew strange; also verse 20
woman drip honey,and her speech ▼
▼Hebrew palate
is ismoother than oil,Proverbs 5:20
20Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with ja forbidden womanand embrace the bosom of kan adulteress? ▼
▼Hebrew a foreign woman
Proverbs 6:24-26
24to preserve you from the evil woman, ▼▼Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
from the smooth tongue of nthe adulteress. ▼
▼Hebrew the foreign woman
25 pDo not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her qeyelashes;
26for rthe price of a prostitute is only sa loaf of bread, ▼
▼Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
but a married woman ▼
▼Hebrew a man’s wife
vhunts down a precious life.
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