Translations:Does the proverb about the jealous husband show that prostitution is legal? (Prov. 6:32-35)/27/en

Perhaps a pagan court and a public flogging are in view. Had he committed adultery with a true daughter of Israel, not a foreign woman, the death sentence would have been exacted (see 5:14; cf. Lev. 20:10; Deut. 22:22; Ezek. 23:45-47).