Drink from your own cistern: 'Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.' The metaphor shifts to water, a symbol of life and satisfaction. One should derive satisfaction from one's own resources—here, understood as one's own wife and household. 'Your own cistern' (behorcha) and 'your own well' (beorcha) suggest intimate, exclusive belonging. The married man should find his sexual and emotional satisfaction within his marriage covenant, not seeking it outside. The metaphor of drinking suggests satisfying thirst; the warning implies that the young man will have genuine desires for sexual satisfaction; the issue is where those desires are appropriately met.

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