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    Then let me sow, but then let another one eat the produce!
        Let my sprouts be pulled up by their roots!

    If my heart has been seduced by another woman
        or if I have waited by a friend’s door for a liaison with his wife,
10     Then let my wife be taken by another,
        to grind his grain or do whatever he pleases,
    And let other men kneel down over her

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then may others eat what I have sown,(A)
    and may my crops be uprooted.(B)

“If my heart has been enticed(C) by a woman,(D)
    or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
10 then may my wife grind(E) another man’s grain,
    and may other men sleep with her.(F)

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