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Song of Songs - Chapter 1

	Sgs 1:1	The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
	Sgs 1:2	O that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,
	Sgs 1:3	your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.
	Sgs 1:4	Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
	Sgs 1:5	I am very dark, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
	Sgs 1:6	Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but, my own vineyard I have not kept!
	Sgs 1:7	Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?
	Sgs 1:8	If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.
	Sgs 1:9	I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots.
	Sgs 1:10	Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
	Sgs 1:11	We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.
	Sgs 1:12	While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.
	Sgs 1:13	My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
	Sgs 1:14	My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Enge'di.
	Sgs 1:15	Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
	Sgs 1:16	Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;
	Sgs 1:17	the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.

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