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Your temple[a] behind your veil
    is like a slice of pomegranate.
There are sixty queens and eighty mistresses,[b]
    and too many young women to count,
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique.
She’s unique to her mother,
    she’s pure to the one who gave birth to her.
Young women see her and call her blessed,
    queens and mistresses praise her.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 6:7 Or brow
  2. Song of Solomon 6:8 Or concubines; i.e. secondary wives

Your temples behind your veil(A)
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(B)
Sixty queens(C) there may be,
    and eighty concubines,(D)
    and virgins beyond number;
but my dove,(E) my perfect one,(F) is unique,
    the only daughter of her mother,
    the favorite of the one who bore her.(G)
The young women saw her and called her blessed;
    the queens and concubines praised her.

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