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Proverbs 7:3-5
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3 (A)bind them on your fingers;
    (B)write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and call insight your intimate friend,
5 to keep you from (C)the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (D)the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.

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  1. Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman
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Proverbs 7:3-5
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3 Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and to insight, “You are my relative.”
5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words.(B)

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