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I said, “I will climb the date palm.
I will take hold of its bunches of fruit.”
May your breasts be like the clusters of the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like apples,
10a and your mouth like the best wine—

The Woman

10b —flowing to my lover,
gliding smoothly over lips and teeth.[a]
11 I belong to my lover,
and his desire is for me.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 7:10 The reading lips and teeth is well attested by the ancient versions. The Hebrew reads lips of sleepers.