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Your teeth are very white
    like a group of clean sheep that is coming from the pool of water.
Each tooth is one of a pair.
    Not one of them is alone.
The sides of your face are beautiful,
    like the halves of a pomegranate.
I see them through your veil.

A king may have 60 queens.
    He may have 80 slave wives.
He may have many other young women too.
    There may be too many for him to count![a]

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Footnotes

  1. 6:8 The numbers in verse 8 are big numbers. That is all. The writer does not mean more than that. The man is saying that there are many women. He may know many women. But the woman that he loves is very different from any of them. There is nobody as lovely as she is!