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Proverbs 5:20
King James Version
Proverbs 5:20
King James Version
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by (A)an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Proverbs 5:20
New International Version
Proverbs 5:20
New International Version
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
Proverbs 5:20
English Standard Version
Proverbs 5:20
English Standard Version
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with (A)a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of (B)an adulteress?[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:20 Hebrew a foreign woman
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