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12 My darling, my bride,
    you are pure like a locked garden.
You are like a locked pool,
    a closed fountain.
13 Your limbs are like a garden
    filled with pomegranates and other pleasant fruit,
with all the best spices:
    henna,[a]

14 nard, saffron,[b] calamus,[c] and cinnamon.[d]

Your limbs are like a garden
    filled with trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloe.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:13 henna A plant with sweet-smelling, blue-yellow flowers that grows in clusters (groups) like grapes.
  2. Song of Solomon 4:14 saffron A kind of yellow flower used in making perfume.
  3. Song of Solomon 4:14 calamus A kind of reed plant used in making perfume.
  4. Song of Solomon 4:14 cinnamon A kind of plant used as a spice and in making perfume.

12 You are a garden(A) locked up, my sister, my bride;(B)
    you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.(C)
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates(D)
    with choice fruits,
    with henna(E) and nard,
14     nard and saffron,
    calamus and cinnamon,(F)
    with every kind of incense tree,
    with myrrh(G) and aloes(H)
    and all the finest spices.(I)

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