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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’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[a]
    but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.(A)

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  1. 6.26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread

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 adulteress:
    she eats and wipes her mouth
    and says, “I have done no wrong.”(A)

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