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Proverbs 5:20

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5:20 But why should you be captivated, 1  my son, by an adulteress,

and embrace the bosom of a different woman? 2 

1 tn In the interrogative clause the imperfect has a deliberative nuance.

2 tn Heb “foreigner” (so ASV, NASB), but this does not mean that the woman is non-Israelite. This term describes a woman who is outside the moral boundaries of the covenant community – she is another man’s wife, but since she acts with moral abandonment she is called “foreign.”



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