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I would bring you to my childhood home,[a] and there you would teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, sweet pomegranate wine. His left hand would be under my head and his right hand would embrace me. I adjure you, O women of Jerusalem, not to awaken him until he pleases.”

The Young Women of Jerusalem:

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:2 my childhood home, literally, “my mother’s house.”

I would lead you and bring you
Into the (A)house of my mother,
She who used to instruct me.
I would cause you to drink of (B)spiced wine,
Of the juice of my pomegranate.

(To the Daughters of Jerusalem)

(C)His left hand is under my head,
And his right hand embraces me.
(D)I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.

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