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| 1:2 | Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine. |
| 1:3 | Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love. |
| 1:4 | Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers. |
| 1:5 | I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. |
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| 1:7 | Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends? |
| 1:8 | If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers. |
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| 1:10 | Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels. |
| 1:11 | We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver. |
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| 1:12 | While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume. |
| 1:13 | As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts. |
| 1:14 | My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi. |
| 1:15 | See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove. |
| 1:16 | See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green. |
| 1:17 | Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees. |
Song of Solomon 1 - Bible in Basic English
