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24 in order to preserve you from an evil woman,[a]
    from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.[b]
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart;
    may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
26 For the price of a woman, a prostitute,[c] is the price of a loaf of bread,
    but the woman belonging to a man[d] hunts precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Or “wife”
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Literally “a foreign woman”
  3. Proverbs 6:26 Or “whore”
  4. Proverbs 6:26 Literally “the woman of a man”