Proverbs 6:24-26

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²⁴They will protect you from an evil woman,^[a]
from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.^(A)
²⁵Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty^(B)
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.^(C)
²⁶For 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

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

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