OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 9:4

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Don’t associate with a woman who is a singer, lest perhaps you be caught by her tricks.

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Verse 4. Dancer. Greek “musician, lest,” and so forth Bible.—The same person is often given to both music and dancing, ( Menochius.) and these arts are very dangerous. Met. 14:6.—The dances in the East were more licentious than ours.

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