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Proverbs 7:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

2 Keep my commands and live,[a]
    and my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3 Bind them on your fingers,
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)
4 Say to Wisdom, “You are my sister!”[b]
    Call Understanding, “Friend!”

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Footnotes

  1. 7:2 Live: here as elsewhere (Gn 20:7; 42:18; 2 Kgs 18:32; Jer 27:12, 17; Ez 18:32), the imperative (“Live!”) is uttered against the danger of death, e.g., “Do such and such and you will live (= survive the danger); why should you die?”
  2. 7:4 You are my sister: “sister” and “brother” are examples of love language in the ancient Near East, occurring in Egyptian love poetry and Mesopotamian marriage songs. In Sg 4:9, 10, 12; 5:1, the man calls the woman, “my sister, my bride.” Intimate friendship with Woman Wisdom saves one from false and dangerous relationships.
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