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Proverbs 5:15-20

15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

19 A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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