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20 He took a lot of money along,
    and he won't be back home
before the middle
    of the month.”

21 And so, she tricked him
with all of her sweet talk
    and her flattery.
22 At once he followed her
like an ox on the way
    to be slaughtered,
or like a fool on the way
to be punished[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 7.22 a fool … punished: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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