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10     while she’s a virgin,
    that she not be seduced
    and become pregnant
    while still living at home;
    when she’s married,
    that she not go straying;
    or having married,
    that she not be infertile.
11 Keep a strict watch over
an unruly daughter
    so that she doesn’t make you
    an object of ridicule to your enemies,
    a topic of talk in the city
    and the assembly of the people,
    and she shame you before the crowd.

12 Don’t consider the beauty
of any person,[a]
    and don’t spend time among women.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 42:12 Heb Don’t allow any latticework in her room nor a place that overlooks the entrance to the house; don’t let her display her beauty before any man.

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