OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 42:12

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12

Don’t gaze at every beautiful body. Don’t sit in the midst of women.

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Verse 12. Body’s. Lit. “man’s.” But females are included in this term. Bible.—It was also necessary to guard the Greeks, and pagans in general, against a criminal affection for boys.

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