for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests' places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
and say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?
Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God.
Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.
till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
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