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Jewish Publication Society (1917)
JPS
The Gospel of Barnabas
GspBar
[1]My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. [No book]
[2]Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of thine eye. [No book]
[3]Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart. [No book]
[4]Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy kinswoman; [No book]
[5]That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words. [No book]
[6]For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice; [No book]
[7]And I beheld among the thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, [No book]
[8]Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house; [No book]
[9]In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness. [No book]
[10]And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart. [No book]
[11]She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house; [No book]
[12]Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner. [No book]
[13]So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him: [No book]
[14]'Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from me; this day have I paid my vows. [No book]
[15]Therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek thy face, and I have found thee. [No book]
[16]I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. [No book]
[17]I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. [No book]
[18]Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves. [No book]
[19]For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; [No book]
[20]He hath taken the bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.' [No book]
[21]With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away. [No book]
[22]He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool; [No book]
[23]Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare—and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life. [No book]
[24]Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. [No book]
[25]Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. [No book]
[26]For she hath cast down many wounded; yea, a mighty host are all her slain. [No book]
[27]Her house is the way to the nether-world, going down to the chambers of death. [No book]
Translation: Jewish Publication Society (1917)
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Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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