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20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
    and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[a](A)

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  1. 5.20 Heb alien woman

that they may keep you from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.(A)

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  1. 7.5 Heb strange woman
  2. 7.5 Heb alien woman

24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[b](A)

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  1. 6.24 Gk: MT the evil woman
  2. 6.24 Heb alien woman

33 Your eyes will see strange things,
    and your mind utter perverse things.(A)

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27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;
    an adulteress[a] is a narrow well.(A)
28 She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the number of the faithless.(B)

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  1. 23.27 Heb alien woman

14 The mouth of a loose woman[a] is a deep pit;
    he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

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  1. 22.14 Heb strange woman

Solomon’s Errors

11 King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,(A)

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16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(A)
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and forgets her sacred covenant,
18 for her way[c] leads down to death
    and her paths to the shades;(B)
19 those who go to her never come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

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  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman
  3. 2.18 Cn: Heb house