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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,",
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.",
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon.",
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 27,
      "text": "Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 7:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
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