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Proverbs 5:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider, and go astray?

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American Standard Version (1901)

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

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Common English Bible

Why, my son, should you lose your senses with a mysterious woman and embrace the breasts of a foreign female?

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Catholic Public Domain Version

Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?

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Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

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Proverbs 5:20
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King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,


The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.


Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.


For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,


to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.


that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.


You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.


For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and covering one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.