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Ezra Chapter 7

1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine

4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy

6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7:7

11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 7:12

15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face,

16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved

17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us

19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 7:20

21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the

22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,

24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the

25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her

26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have

27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of