These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Proverbs 5
Tanakh 23 verses
- 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding;
- 2 That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;
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- 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on the nether-world;
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- 6 Lest she should walk the even path of life, Her ways wander, but she knoweth it not.
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Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
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Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
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Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labours be in the house of an alien;
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- 11 And thou moan, when thine end cometh, When thy and thy body are consumed,
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And say: ‘How have I hated instruction, And my despised reproof;
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Proverbs 12:1 Proverbs 1:22 Proverbs 15:5 Proverbs 1:25 Proverbs 1:7 Psalm 50:17 Zechariah 1:4-6 Zechariah 7:11-14 Proverbs 13:18 Psalm 73:22 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 Proverbs 1:29-30 2 Chronicles 33:10-11 John 3:19-20 Genesis 19:9 Jeremiah 44:4 2 Chronicles 25:16 2 Chronicles 36:16 Proverbs 6:23 Exodus 2:13-14 -
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Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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I was well nigh in all evil In the midst of the congregation and .’
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
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Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, And courses of water in the streets.
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- 17 Let them be only thine own, And not strangers’ with thee.
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Let thy fountain be blessed; And have joy of the wife of thy youth.
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- 19 A lovely hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; With her be thou ravished always.
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Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of an alien?
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- 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of , And He maketh even all his paths.
- 22 His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.
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