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Song of Songs 6:2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

2 W(A) My lover has come down to his garden,[a]
    to the beds of spices,
To feed in the gardens
    and to gather lilies.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:2–3 The woman implies here that she had never really lost her lover, for he has come down to his garden (cf. 2:16; 4:5). Feed…lilies: the imagery here evokes both a shepherd pasturing his flocks and erotic play between the lovers (2:16; 4:5, 12, 16).
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