to deliver you ¹  from the adulteress, ²  from the sexually loose woman ³  who speaks flattering ⁴  words; ⁵ 

by keeping ¹  you from the evil woman, ²  from the smooth tongue of ³  the loose woman. ⁴ 

so that they may keep you ¹  from the adulterous ²  woman, from the loose woman ³  who flatters you ⁴  with her words. ⁵ 

Our inheritance ¹  is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. ² 

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. ¹ 

My guests ¹  and my servant girls consider ²  me a stranger; I am a foreigner ³  in their eyes.

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner. ¹ 

lest strangers devour ¹  your strength, ²  and your labor ³  benefit ⁴  another man’s house.

But why should you be captivated, ¹  my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? ² 

Take a man’s ¹  garment ²  when he has given security for a stranger, ³  and when he gives surety for strangers, ⁴  hold him ⁵  in pledge.

for a prostitute is like ¹  a deep pit; a harlot ²  is like ³  a narrow well. ⁴ 

Let another ¹  praise you, and not your own mouth; ²  someone else, ³  and not your own lips.

Take a man’s ¹  garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, ²  hold him in pledge. ³ 

Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted ¹  the money paid for us! ² 

When she bore ¹  a son, Moses ²  named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.” ³ 

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite ¹  owes you, you must remit.

and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women. ¹ 

I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes? ¹ 

and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses ¹  had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),