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Bridegroom:

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

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 3:5 See note on Song 2:7.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(A)
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(B)

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