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10 Earrings add to your beauty,
and you wear a necklace
    of precious stones.
11 Let's make you some jewelry
    of gold, woven with silver.

She Speaks:

12 My king, while you
were on your couch,
    my aroma was a magic charm.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 magic charm: The Hebrew text has “spikenard” (or “nard”), a sweet-smelling ointment made from a plant that comes from India. The ointment was sometimes used as a love charm.

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