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Proverbs 6:26

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26for vthe price of a prostitute is only wa loaf of bread,7

but a married woman8 xhunts down a precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. 7Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
  2. 8Hebrew a man’s wife

Cross references

  1. v[ch. 29:3]
  2. wch. 28:21; 1 Sam. 2:36
  3. xEzek. 13:18

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,

but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,

but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.

NLTNew Living Translation

For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,

but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread,

but the woman belonging to a man hunts precious life.

KJV 1900King James Version

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread:

And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.