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Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
    coming up from being washed.[a]
All of them are twins,
    not one has lost[b] her young.
Your temple[c] behind your veil
    is like a slice of pomegranate.
There are sixty queens and eighty mistresses,[d]
    and too many young women to count,

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 6:6 Lit. from washing
  2. Song of Solomon 6:6 Lit. been bereaved of; i.e. her teeth match
  3. Song of Solomon 6:7 Or brow
  4. Song of Solomon 6:8 Or concubines; i.e. secondary wives