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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 7, Verse 2

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My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
King James Version
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
American Standard Version
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
New English Translation
Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
World English Bible
Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
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Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)