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Your teeth are white like ewes[a]
    just coming from their bath.
They all give birth to twins;
    not one of them has lost a baby.
Your lips are like a red silk thread.
    Your mouth is beautiful.
Your cheeks under your veil
    are like two slices of pomegranate.
Your neck is long and thin
    like David’s tower.
That tower was built to be decorated[b]
    with a thousand shields on its walls,
    with the shields of powerful soldiers.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:2 ewes Female goats.
  2. Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck … decorated Or “Your neck is like David’s tower, built with rows of stone.” This would mean she wore many necklaces, one above the other, which looked like rows of stone in a tower.

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,
    coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin;
    not one of them is alone.(A)
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
    your mouth(B) is lovely.(C)
Your temples behind your veil
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(D)
Your neck is like the tower(E) of David,
    built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(F)
    all of them shields of warriors.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.