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20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
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20 My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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21 Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
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21 Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck.
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22 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
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22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
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23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
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23 For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,
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24 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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24 keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
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25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
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25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
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26 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married womanhunts down a precious life.
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26 for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
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27 Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
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27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
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28 Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
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28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
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29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
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29 So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
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30 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
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30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
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31 but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
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31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
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32 He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
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32 But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
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33 He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
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33 Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
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34 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
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34 for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
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35 He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
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35 He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
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