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26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,[a]
    but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

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  1. 6:26 Hebrew to a loaf of bread.

26         for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread,[a]
        but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Heb uncertain

20 An adulterous woman consumes a man,
    then wipes her mouth and says, “What’s wrong with that?”

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20 This is the way of an adulterous woman:
    she eats and wipes her mouth,
    and she says, “I’ve done nothing wrong!”

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