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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)on account of [a]a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread,
And [b]an adulteress (B)hunts for the precious [c]life.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or a woman who is a harlot
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Or a woman of another man
  3. Proverbs 6:26 Lit soul

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 (A)adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wrong.”

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