“If my heart has been enticed toward a woman,
    and I have (A)lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
10 then let my wife (B)grind for another,
    and let others (C)bow down on her.
11 For that would be a heinous crime;
    that would be an iniquity (D)to be punished by the judges;
12 for that would be a fire (E)that consumes as far as Abaddon,
    and it would burn to the root all my increase.

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“If my heart has been seduced by a woman,
    or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,
10 then let my wife serve[a] another man;
    let other men sleep with her.
11 For lust is a shameful sin,
    a crime that should be punished.
12 It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.[b]
    It would wipe out everything I own.

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Footnotes

  1. 31:10 Hebrew grind for.
  2. 31:12 Hebrew to Abaddon.