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11 Let's stroll through the fields
    and sleep in the villages.
12 At dawn let's slip out and see
if grapevines and fruit trees
    are covered with blossoms.
When we are there,
    I will give you my love.
13 Perfume from the magic flower[a]
    fills the air, my darling.
Right at our doorstep
I have stored up for you
    all kinds of tasty fruits.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.13 magic flower: The Hebrew text has “mandrake,” a plant that was thought to give sexual powers.

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