The Bible in Its Traditions

Song of Solomon 7:11–14

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11  Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

Sg7:12  Approach, my beloved. Let us go out into the field; let us linger in the villages.

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12  Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine hath budded, whether the vine- blossom be opened, and the pomegranates be in flower; there will I give thee my love.

12  Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give thee my breasts.

Sg7:13  The mandrakes yield their fragrance. At our gates is every fruit. The new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for you.

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13  The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Sg8:1  Bride to Groom: "Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?"