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These verses talk of the path to your interior room of death. They speak of adultery, but in general infer all forms of disobedience to God; all leading to verse 27 and the interior room of death. [Rather, enter into the interior rooms of life! (Isa 26:20 of 15-21)]

Proverbs 7:1-27 LITV . . .My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. (2) Keep my commands and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye. (3) Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. (4) Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinsman, (5) so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the alien with her flattering words. (6) For I looked through my lattice, at the window of my house, (7) and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the sons a young man lacking heart, (8) passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, (9) in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and darkness of night. (10) And, behold, a woman came to meet him, with a harlot's dress, and a guarded heart; (11) she is loud and stubborn; her feet do not rest in her own house. (12) At this time she is outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner; (13) and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him, (14) Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have completed my vows; (15) so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you. (16) I have spread my couch with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen. (17) I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. (18) Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses. (19) For my husband is not at his house; he is going in the way, far away. (20) He has taken a bag of silver in his hand; at the day of the full moon he will enter his house. (21) With the sum of her persuasion she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him. (22) He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter; or as one in fetters goes to the correction of a fool, (23) until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul. (24) Now, then, listen to me, O sons, and attend to the words of my mouth: (25) Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths. (26) For many are the wounded she has caused to fall; and plentiful all her slain ones.
(27) The ways of Sheol are in her house, leading down to the [interior] rooms of death.

Proverbs 7:1-27 GNB . . .My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do. (2) Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes. (3) Keep my teaching with you all the time; write it on your heart. (4) Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend. (5) They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive words. (6) Once I was looking out the window of my house, (7) and I saw many inexperienced young men, but noticed one foolish fellow in particular. (8) He was walking along the street near the corner where a certain woman lived. He was passing near her house (9) in the evening after it was dark. (10) And then she met him; she was dressed like a prostitute and was making plans. (11) She was a bold and shameless woman who always walked the streets (12) or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace. (13) She threw her arms around the young man, kissed him, looked him straight in the eye, and said, (14) "I made my offerings today and have the meat from the sacrifices. (15) So I came out looking for you. I wanted to find you, and here you are! (16) I've covered my bed with sheets of colored linen from Egypt. (17) I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. (18) Come on! Let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms. (19) My husband isn't at home. He's on a long trip. (20) He took plenty of money with him and won't be back for two weeks." (21) So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk. (22) Suddenly he was going with her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered, like a deer prancing into a trap (23) where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net---he did not know that his life was in danger. (24) Now then, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to what I say. (25) Do not let such a woman win your heart; don't go wandering after her. (26) She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count.
(27) If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.

Proverbs 7:1-27 NWT . . .My son, keep my sayings, and may you treasure up my own commandments with you. 2 Keep my commandments and continue living, and my law like the pupil of your eyes. 3 Tie them upon your fingers, and write them upon the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom: “You are my sister”; and may you call understanding itself “Kinswoman,” 5 to guard you against the woman stranger, against the foreigner who has made her own sayings smooth. 6 For at the window of my house, through my lattice I looked down, 7 that I might peer upon the inexperienced ones. I was interested in discerning among the sons a young man in want of heart, 8 passing along on the street near her corner, and in the way to her house he marches, 9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, at the approach of the night and the gloom. 10 And, look! there was a woman to meet him, with the garment of a prostitute and cunning of heart. 11 She is boisterous and stubborn. In her house her feet do not keep residing. 12 Now she is outdoors, now she is in the public squares, and near every corner she lies in wait. 13 And she has grabbed hold of him and given him a kiss. She has put on a bold face, and she begins to say to him: 14 “Communion sacrifices were incumbent upon me. Today I have paid my vows. 15 That is why I have come out to meet you, to look for your face, that I may find you. 16 With coverlets I have bedecked my divan, with many-colored things, linen of Egypt. 17 I have besprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. 18 Do come, let us drink our fill of love until the morning; do let us enjoy each other with love expressions. 19 For the husband is not in his house; he has gone traveling on a way of some distance. 20 A bag of money he has taken in his hand. On the day of the full moon he will come to his house.” 21 She has misled him by the abundance of her persuasiveness. By the smoothness of her lips she seduces him. 22 All of a sudden he is going after her, like a bull that comes even to the slaughter, and just as if fettered for the discipline of a foolish man, 23 until an arrow cleaves open his liver, just as a bird hastens into the trap, and he has not known that it involves his very soul. 24 And now, O sons, listen to me and pay attention to the sayings of my mouth. 25 May your heart not turn aside to her ways. Do not wander into her roadways. 26 For many are the ones she has caused to fall down slain, and all those being killed by her are numerous.
27 The ways to She´ol her house is; they are descending to the interior rooms of death.

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