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24 Such teaching will keep you from sinful women
    and from the pleasing words of another man’s unfaithful wife.
25 Don’t want her because she is beautiful.
    Don’t let her capture you by the way she looks at you.
26 A prostitute may leave you with only a loaf of bread.
    And a woman who takes part in adultery may cost you your life.

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24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(A)

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.(B)

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