Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,(A) that feed among the lilies.
Until the day breaks[a]
and the shadows flee,(B)
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.(C)

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  1. 4:6 Lit breathes

Your breasts(A) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle(B)
    that browse among the lilies.(C)
Until the day breaks
    and the shadows flee,(D)
I will go to the mountain of myrrh(E)
    and to the hill of incense.

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Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

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Woman

14 Run away with me,[a] my love,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.(A)

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  1. 8:14 Lit Flee

She

14 Come away, my beloved,
    and be like a gazelle(A)
or like a young stag(B)
    on the spice-laden mountains.(C)

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14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

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