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Ezra Chapter 5

1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my

3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her

5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are

7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the

8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her

15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of

16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in

17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy

19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts

20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and

22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be

23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his