The progression of harm: 'Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.' The image shifts from taste (honey, gall) to movement. The adulteress's 'feet go down to death' (yeredo ragelyha el mavet), 'steps lead straight to the grave' (yishmareh She'ol). Those who follow her trajectory will end in death. The metaphor is not merely physical death but the spiritual death that results from severing covenant relationships. The young man who commits adultery enters into a death-trajectory, losing his way to life with God and authentic community.

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