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(A)I would lead you, bring you to my mother’s house,
    where you would teach me,
Where I would give you to drink
    spiced wine, my pomegranate[a] juice.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 Wine…pomegranate: sexual connotations are implied, since the root “drink” (shaqah) is a wordplay on “kiss” (nashaq) in v. 1; cf. 1:2.

I would lead you
    and bring you to my mother’s house(A)
    she who has taught me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
    the nectar of my pomegranates.

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