Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence thy kinswoman:
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that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
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For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
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and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
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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 of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
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And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
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She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
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now without, now in the broadways, --and she lieth in wait at every corner.
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And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
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I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
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therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
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I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
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I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
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For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
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he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
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With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
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He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool;
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till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
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And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
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Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
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for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
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Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.