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Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah away, saying to him, “You shall not inherit anything in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

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16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

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“Those born of an illicit union shall not come into the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of their descendants shall come into the assembly of the Lord.

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30 But what does the scripture say? “Drive out the enslaved woman and her child, for the child of the enslaved woman will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman.”(A)

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24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[b](A)
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,(B)
26 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[c]
    but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.24 Gk: MT the evil woman
  2. 6.24 Heb alien woman
  3. 6.26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread

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

For the lips of a loose woman[a] drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil,(A)

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  1. 5.3 Heb strange woman