Proverbs 5:20

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

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.

[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.

For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.

King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite;