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12 Let’s get up early and go to the vineyards.
    Let’s see if the vines are in bloom.
Let’s see if the blossoms have opened
    and if the pomegranates are in bloom.
    There I will give you my love.

13 Smell the mandrakes[a]
    and all the pleasant flowers by our door.
I have saved many pleasant things for you, my lover,
    pleasant things, new and old.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:13 mandrakes Plants with roots that look like people. People thought these plants had the power to make people fall in love.

12 Let us go early to the vineyards(A)
    to see if the vines have budded,(B)
if their blossoms(C) have opened,
    and if the pomegranates(D) are in bloom(E)
    there I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes(F) send out their fragrance,
    and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
    that I have stored up for you, my beloved.(G)

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