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

26 for (A)the price of a prostitute is only (B)a loaf of bread,[a]
    but a married woman[b] (C)hunts down a precious life.

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  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife

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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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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