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My son, keep thou my words; and keep my behests to thee. (My son, remember my words; and keep my commands with thee.)

Keep thou my behests, and thou shalt live; and my law, as the apple of thine eye. (Keep thou my commands, and thou shalt live; and my instructions, or my teaching, as the apple of thine eyes.)

Bind thou it in thy fingers; write thou it in the tables of thine heart. (Bind thou it to thy fingers; write thou it on the tablets of thy heart.)

Say thou to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call thou prudence thy love (and call thou understanding, thy friend).

That it keep thee from a strange woman; and from an alien woman, that maketh her words sweet. (So that they keep thee safe from a strange woman; yea, from an unknown woman, who maketh her words sweet.)

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