Proverbs 30:20

American Standard Version (1901)

So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

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  • Num 5:11-30 : 11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13 and a man lie 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 be not taken in the act; 14 and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15 then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah: 17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. 18 And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of jealousy: and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse. 19 And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse. 20 But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband: 21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell; 22 and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness: 24 and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter. 25 And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before Jehovah, and bring it unto the altar: 26 and the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 27 And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. 29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; 30 or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
  • Prov 5:6 : 6 So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.
  • Prov 7:13-23 : 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him: 14 Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon. 21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along. 22 He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool; 23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

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  • Ezek 16:30-32
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    30How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an impudent harlot;

    31in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.

    32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 30:19
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    19The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

    4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Prov 7:10-13
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    10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

    11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

    12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

    13So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:

  • Prov 7:21
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    21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

  • Ezek 18:11
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    11and that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Jer 11:15
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    15What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

    28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

  • Prov 6:32-33
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    32He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

    33Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.

  • Num 5:13
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    13and a man lie 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 be not taken in the act;

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  • Job 31:10
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    10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

  • Num 5:20
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    20But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

  • Prov 2:16-17
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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

  • Prov 5:20
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    20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

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    43Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her, and she [with them] .

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    8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

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    19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

  • Ezek 16:34-35
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    34And thou art different from [other] women in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.

    35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

  • Jer 2:33
    70%

    33How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

  • Jer 3:2
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    2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Jer 3:9
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    9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Prov 6:29
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    29So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22[ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.

  • Job 20:12
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    12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

  • Jer 2:23
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    23How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

  • Prov 30:21
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    21For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, [which] it cannot bear: