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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

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
    coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin,
    not one of them is missing.(A)
Your temples behind your veil(B)
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(C)
Sixty queens(D) there may be,
    and eighty concubines,(E)
    and virgins beyond number;

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