Sirach 9:5

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Sirach 9:5 (WEB)
Don’t gaze at a virgin, lest perhaps you stumble and incur penalties for her.

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Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Virgins III.3Book III
“But if it is said to a man: “Gaze not on a maid, lest she cause thee to fall,” what is to be said to a consecrated virgin, who, if she loves, sins in mind; if she is loved, in act also?” — editor's note: Ecclus. ix. 5.
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Luke 2:19
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Genesis 4:7
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Genesis 24:65
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Genesis 29:11
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Proverbs 10:19
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