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Tell me, you whom I love,
    where do you feed your sheep?
    Where do you make them rest at noon?
Why should I look for you near your friend’s sheep?
    Am I like a woman who wears a veil?[a]

The Man Speaks to the Woman

You are the most beautiful of women.
    Surely you know to follow the sheep.
Feed your young goats
    near the shepherds’ tents.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:7 veil This was the way a prostitute usually dressed.

Tell me, you whom I love,
    where you graze your flock
    and where you rest your sheep(A) at midday.
Why should I be like a veiled(B) woman
    beside the flocks of your friends?

Friends

If you do not know, most beautiful of women,(C)
    follow the tracks of the sheep
and graze your young goats
    by the tents of the shepherds.

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