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Bridegroom:

I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem,[a]
    by the gazelles and the wild does:
Do not stir up or awaken love
    before its time has come.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 2:7 This refrain also occurs in Song 3:5; 8:4. Daughters of Jerusalem: see note on Song 1:5.

(A)I [a]charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the does of the field,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 adjure