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PRO 7:1–7:27 ©

The Book of Proverbs 7

7My son, obey what I have told you.

Sincerely consider what I have commanded you to be precious.

2Do what I have commanded you, so that you will keep on living.

Consider the rules I have taught you to be the most precious things you possess.

3Always remember what I have commanded you as if it were tied around your fingers.

Remember it at all times!

4Love what is wise as if it were your sister.

Indeed, love what you should understand as if it were a close relative.

5Do this so that you will be able to stay away from adulterous women,

and stay away from immoral women who speak to you seductively.

6I was once standing near the window in my house,

and I looked down from above the street through the shutters on the window.

7Then I observed someone among the naive people.

I noticed among the youths a young man who does not think wisely.

8He walked down the street near the corner of the road where the adulterous woman dwells.

Then he walked toward the place where she dwelled.

9(It was the time of day when night begins, and then it became dark.)

10Suddenly an adulterous woman approached the young man.

She was wearing a prostitute’s clothing and intended to deceive the young man.

11(That woman spoke loudly and acted rebelliously.

She never stayed at home.

12She often walked around the streets and public places.

At the corner of any road she waited for someone whom she could seduce.)

13When she saw the young man, she firmly took hold of him and kissed him.

She shamelessly told him,

14“Today I have meat in my house, because I sacrificed an animal in the temple to promise friendship with Yahweh.

In this way I did what I had vowed to do.

15So I have come out here to meet you.

I have come out to look everywhere for you, and now I have found you!

16I have covered my bed with luxurious Egyptian fabric.

17I have put pleasant-smelling perfumes on my bed:

myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18Come with me! Let us satisfy ourselves sexually all night!

Let us enjoy ourselves sexually!

19Come with me because my husband is not at home.

He has gone away on a long journey.

20He filled a bag with money and took it with him.

He will not return home until the middle of the month.”

21Thus that adulterous woman persuaded the young man by speaking so persuasively;

by speaking seductively she allured him into doing what she wanted to do.

22He quickly followed her to her home.

He unknowingly went to die like an ox going to the place where its owner will kill it.

He went to die inevitably like a foolish person who goes in fetters to be punished

23until someone kills him by shooting an arrow into his entrails.

He went to die quickly like a bird that flies into a trap.

He did not realize that going with the adulterous woman would cause him to die.

24So now, children, pay attention to what I say!

Pay careful attention to what I have spoken to you!

25Do not decide to do what adulterous women do.

Indeed, never act like them!

26Do not do so because they have killed many men who are now slain.

They have slain so many men!

27Going to an adulterous woman’s house is doing something that will result in that person dying.

Doing that will result in that person going to the place where the spirits of dead people are.

PRO 7:1–7:27 ©

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