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The Adjuration Refrain

The Beloved to the Maidens:

[a] I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields:
“Do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases!”

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:5 tn See the notes on these lines at 2:7.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
    by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
    that you not stir up nor awaken love,
    until it so desires.

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