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Song of Songs 2:7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

7 (A)I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem,[a]
    by the gazelles and the does of the field,
Do not awaken, or stir up love
    until it is ready.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:7 Cf. 3:5; 5:8; 8:4. By the gazelles and the does: perhaps a mitigated invocation of the divinity based on the assonance in Hebrew of the names of these animals with terms for God.
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