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Proverbs 7 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:1 - My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 - Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 - Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:4 - Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:6 - Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:7 - I saw among the young men one without sense,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:8 - Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:9 - At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:10 - And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:11 - She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 - So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:14 - I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:15 - So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:16 - My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17 - I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 - Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:19 - For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:20 - He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:21 - With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:24 - So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:26 - For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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