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16 You will be saved from the loose[a] woman,
    from the adulteress with her smooth words,
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and forgets her sacred covenant;
18 for her way[b] leads down to death,
    and her paths to the shades;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Heb strange
  2. Proverbs 2:18 Cn: Heb house

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