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Proverbs 7 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:1 - My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 - keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 - bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:4 - Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:6 - For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:7 - and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:8 - passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:9 - in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:10 - And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:11 - She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 - She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:14 - "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:15 - so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:16 - I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17 - I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 - Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:19 - For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:20 - he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:21 - With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:24 - And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:26 - for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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Proverbs Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

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