Proverbs 6:24-29
24to preserve you from the evil woman, ▼▼Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
from the smooth tongue of bthe adulteress. ▼
▼Hebrew the foreign woman
25 dDo not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eeyelashes;
26for fthe price of a prostitute is only ga loaf of bread, ▼
▼Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
but a married woman ▼
▼Hebrew a man’s wife
jhunts down a precious life.27Can a man carry kfire next to his lchest
and his clothes not be burned?
28Or can one mwalk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
none who touches her nwill go unpunished.
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