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11 Keep strict watch over a headstrong daughter,
    or she may make you a laughing-stock to your enemies,
a byword in the city and the assembly of[a] the people,
    and put you to shame in public gatherings.[b]
See that there is no lattice in her room,
    no spot that overlooks the approaches to the house.[c]
12 Do not let her parade her beauty before any man,
    or spend her time among married women;[d]
13 for from garments comes the moth,
    and from a woman comes woman’s wickedness.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 42:11 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. Sirach 42:11 Heb: Gk to shame before the great multitude
  3. Sirach 42:11 Heb: Gk lacks See . . . house
  4. Sirach 42:12 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain

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