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Your navel is a round wine-mixing bowl[a]
    that does not lack mixed[b] wine!
Your belly is a heap of wheat
    encircled with lilies.
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    twins of a gazelle.
Your neck is like a tower of ivory;
    your eyes are pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
    looking out over Damascus.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:2 Literally “a bowl of the roundness”
  2. Song of Solomon 7:2 Or “blended”
  3. Song of Solomon 7:4 Literally “looking out over the face of Damascus”

Your navel is a rounded goblet
    that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
    encircled by lilies.
Your breasts(A) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle.
Your neck is like an ivory tower.(B)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon(C)
    by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon(D)
    looking toward Damascus.

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