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Do not look around in the streets of a city,
    nor wander about in its deserted sections.
Turn away your eyes from a shapely woman,
    and do not look intently at beauty belonging to another;
many have been misled by a woman’s beauty,
    and by it passion is kindled like a fire.
Never dine with another man’s wife,
    nor revel with her at wine;
lest your heart turn aside to her,
    and in blood[a] you be plunged into destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 9:9 Heb: Gk by your spirit

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