# Proverbs 7 
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1. My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 
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2. keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 
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3. bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 
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4. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, 
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5. to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. 
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6. For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, 
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7. and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, 
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8. passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house 
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9. in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. 
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10. And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. 
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11. She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; 
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12. now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait. 
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13. She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him, 
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14. “I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; 
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15. so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. 
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16. I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; 
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17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 
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18. Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love. 
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19. For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; 
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20. he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.” 
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21. With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. 
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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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23. till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life. 
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24. And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. 
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25. Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths, 
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26. for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. 
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27. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. 

(ESV)