by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

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

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

for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

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

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

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?

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

Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, “Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?”

For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task.