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This is an idiom. To "hold something in pledge" means to hold on to something that someone has given as a pledge, or promise, that he will pay a debt. Alternate translation: "hold onto his coat as a guarantee of repayment" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
# for an immoral woman
One Hebrew tradition and some English translations read, "for foreigners."

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# A gossip
# A slanderer
This means someone who gossips a lot.
Because the problem is that the person talks too much, not that what he says is false, many English translations read, "A gossip."
# you should not associate with

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This means if a someone express a desire that bad things will happen to someone else.
# his lamp will be snuffed out in the middle of darkness
# his lamp will be put out in the middle of darkness
This speaks of a person dying suddenly and unexpectedly as if his life were a lamp snuffed out in the dark. Alternate translation: "his life will end as suddenly as the light of a lamp that is snuffed out in the dark" or "he will die suddenly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
This speaks of a person dying suddenly and unexpectedly as if his life were a lamp put out in the dark. Alternate translation: "his life will end as suddenly as the light of a lamp that is put out in the dark" or "he will die suddenly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
# his lamp will be snuffed out
# his lamp will be put out
This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "his lamp will go out" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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This refers to a lamp with a burning flame. Here the lamp's flame is referred to as the lamp itself. Alternate translation: "the flame of his lamp" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
# snuffed out
to cause a flame to go out