⁴⁴ All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

³ Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

²⁰ For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?