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19 Soothly when the damsels were gone out, (the) twain eld men rised (up), and ran to her, and said, [Soothly when the damsels were gone out, the two old men rose, and ran to her, and said,]

20 Lo! the doors of the garden be closed, and no man seeth us, and we be in the covetousness or concupiscence of (or for) thee. Wherefore assent thou to us, and be thou meddled (or mingled) with us. [Lo! doors of the garden be closed, and no man seeth us, and we be in the covetousness of thee. Wherefore accord to us, and be joined with us.]

21 And if thou wilt not, we shall say witnessing against thee, that a young man was with thee, and for this cause thou sentest out the damsels from thee.

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