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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 5:11

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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5:11 Some sexually transmitted diseases were well known in the ancient Near East. Leviticus 15:1-15 describes what is probably gonorrhea; other texts from Mesopotamia describe “the disease of intercourse” and the “disease of Ishtar” (goddess of love) with the physical symptoms of venereal diseases.
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