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7 My son, obey what I have told you.
Carefully remember the things that I have commanded you.
2 Do what I have commanded you, so that you will live long and well.
Consider the rules I have taught you to be the most precious things that you possess.
3 Constantly remind yourself of the things that I have commanded you.
Memorize them!
4 Love what is wise as if it were your sister.
Indeed, love what you should understand as if it were a close relative.
5 Do this so that you will be able to stay away from adulterous women,
and stay away from immoral women who speak to you seductively.
6 I was once standing near the window in my house,
and I looked down from above the street through the shutters on the window.
7 Then I observed someone among the naive people.
I noticed among the youths a young man who does not think wisely.
8 He walked down the street near the corner of the road where the adulterous woman dwells.
Then he walked on the path toward her house.
9 (It was the time of day when night begins, and then it became dark.)
10 Then I saw that 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.
12 She often walked around the streets and public places.
At the corner of any road she waited for a man whom she could seduce.)
13 When 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.
15 So I have come out here to meet you.
I have come out to look everywhere for you, and now I have found you!
16 I have covered my bed with expensive Egyptian fabric.
17 I have put pleasant-smelling perfumes on my bed:
myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come with me! Let us satisfy ourselves sexually all night!
Let us enjoy ourselves sexually!
19 Come with me because my husband is not at home.
He has gone away on a long journey.
20 He filled a bag with money and took it with him.
He will not return home until the middle of the month.”
21 Thus that adulterous woman persuaded the young man by speaking many persuasive things;
by speaking seductively she allured him into doing what she wanted him to do.
22 He 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 unknowingly went to die like a foolish person who lets others lead him by a chain to where they will punish him
23 until someone kills him by shooting an arrow into his entrails.
He was as foolish as a bird flying quickly into a trap.
He did not realize that going with the adulterous woman would cause him to die.
24 So now, children, listen to what I say!
Carefully pay attention to what I have spoken to you!
25 Do not desire to be with any adulterous woman.
Indeed, never go with one of them!
26 Do not do so because they have ruined the lives of many men.
It would be difficult to count all of the men that they have caused to die!
27 Going to an adulterous woman’s house is like choosing to become a dead person.
Those who enter her bedroom will die as a result.
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