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24 They will protect you from an evil woman,[a]
from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.(A)
25 Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty(B)
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.(C)
26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[b]
but the wife of another man[c] goes after a precious life.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:24 LXX reads from a married woman
  2. 6:26 Or On account of a prostitute, one is left with only a loaf of bread
  3. 6:26 Lit but a wife of a man