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The Adjuration Refrain

The Beloved to the Maidens:

[a] I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields:
“Do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases!”

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:5 tn See the notes on these lines at 2:7.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(A)
    by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(B)

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