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Mishle 7:1-13 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

1. Beni (my son), be shomer over my words, and treasure up my mitzvot with thee.

2. Be shomer over my mitzvot, and live, and over my torah as the apple of thine eye.

3. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the luach (tablet) of thine lev.

4. Say unto chochmah, Thou art my achot; and call binah (understanding) thy kinsman;

5. That they may be shomer over thee and keep thee from the zarah, from the nokhriyah with her smooth words.

6. For at the chalon (window) of my bais I looked through my lattice,

7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the banim, a na'ar (young man) devoid of lev [of understanding, sense],

8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went on the derech to her bais,

9. In the twilight, at erev, in the black and dark lailah;

10. And, hinei, there met him an isha with the attire of a zonah, and crafty of lev.

11. She is loud and soreret (rebellious, defiant); her raglayim abide not in her bais;

12. Now is she without, now in the rechovot, and lurketh in wait at every pinnah (corner)--

13. So she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with a brazen ponem said unto him,

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