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Proverbs 7:20

He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

In Context

19For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey.

21With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:13and a man lays with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act,

Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24

The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →

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