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Avoiding Immorality

Proverbs 5:17

In 11 translations

BSB
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
KJV
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
WEB
Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
ASV
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
LSV
Let them be to you for yourself, || And not to strangers with you.
YLT
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
DBY
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
DRC
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
GNV
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
JPS
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
LXXE
Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יִֽהְיוּ־לְךָ֥ לְבַדֶּ֑ךָ וְאֵ֖ין לְזָרִ֣ים אִתָּֽךְ׃
LXX-Br
Ἔστω σοι μόνῳ ὑπάρχοντα, καὶ μηδεὶς ἀλλότριος μετασχέτω σοι.

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