Like a bandit she lies in wait, and multiplies the unfaithful among men—a portrait of the seductress as predatory, establishing that she actively hunts victims and that her victims accumulate. The verb 'lies in wait' (araba) describes ambush; she is intentional in her predation. The theological significance involves the principle that sexual temptation often operates as deception and entrapment.

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