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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

26 because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread,
    and an adulterous woman stalks a man’s precious life.

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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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20 This is what an immoral woman is like:
    she eats, wipes her mouth, then says
        “I’ve done nothing wrong.”

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