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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 the price of a woman, a prostitute,[a] is the price of a loaf of bread,
    but the woman belonging to a man[b] hunts precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or “whore”
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Literally “the woman of a man”

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 a woman committing adultery:
    she eats and wipes her mouth,
    and says “I have not done wrong.”

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