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26 for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread,[a]
    but an adulteress[b] stalks a man’s very life.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Heb a man’s wife

26 For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread;
And [a]the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man’s wife.

20 This is the way of an adulteress:
    she eats, and wipes her mouth,
    and says, “I have done no wrong.”

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20 So is the way of an adulterous woman;
She eateth, and wipeth her mouth,
And saith, I have done no wickedness.

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