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# prostitute ... immoral woman
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There are two types of sexually immoral women. The "prostitute" is unmarried, "another man's wife" is married. Together they form a merism for any kind of sexually immoral woman. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])
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# a prostitute is a deep pit
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The word "pit" is a metaphor for what happens to men who sleep with prostitutes. Alternate translation: "sleeping with a prostitute is like falling into a deep pit" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# prostitute
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Here the word refers to any unmarried woman who engages in sexual activity, not only those who do so for money.
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# deep pit ... narrow well
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These are two places easy to fall into and hard to get out of, the "pit" because it is "deep" and the "well" because it is "narrow."
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# an immoral woman is a narrow well
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Doing evil for which one will be punished is spoken of as falling into a narrow place from which one cannot escape. Alternate translation: "Sleeping with another man's wife is like falling into a narrow well" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# well
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a hole in the ground that people have dug to get to water
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