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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
    as they come up from the washing;
each of them has a twin,
    and not one is alone.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
    behind your veil.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,
    and maidens[a] beyond numbering.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 6:8 Queens . . . concubines . . . maidens: either all the women of Solomon’s harem or all the beautiful women in the land.