Warnings Against Adultery

²⁰lMy son, keep your father's commandment,

land forsake not your mother's teaching.

²¹mBind them on your heart always;

ntie them around your neck.

²²oWhen you walk, they4 will lead you;

owhen you lie down, they will pwatch over you;

and when you awake, they will talk with you.

²³For the commandment is qa lamp and the teaching a light,

and the rreproofs of discipline are the way of life,

²⁴to preserve you from the evil woman,5

from the smooth tongue of sthe adulteress.6

²⁵tDo not desire her beauty in your heart,

and do not let her capture you with her ueyelashes;

²⁶for vthe price of a prostitute is only wa loaf of bread,7

but a married woman8 xhunts down a precious life.

²⁷Can a man carry yfire next to his zchest

and his clothes not be burned?

²⁸Or can one awalk on hot coals

and his feet not be scorched?

²⁹So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;

none who touches her bwill go unpunished.

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