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24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[b]
    but the wife of another stalks a man’s very life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Gk: MT the evil woman
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread

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