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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)
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Proverbs Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras